Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority

Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority

"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else," Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her spectacular meditation on happiness and conformity, "you surrender your own integrity [and] become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being." And yet conformity is not only a survival strategy for us but also something institutionally indoctrinated in our culture.

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Feels like we are in dark times & even if Drumpf doesn't become President this week (?) we seem to be on a road to repeat history so articles and writers like this give me inspiration & hope.

Hope you are all having a lovely & warm! Weekend x