Got philosophical when I was walking back home from work this evening and thought I might post this up before I forget all about it.

By definition, a non-conformist is someone who goes against the norm and elects to do something his/her way. Of course, the problem with doing that is pretty much this: how much of what a non-conformist is doing really part of his/her own original thought and how much of it is influenced by others. We all know that all thoughts in this day and age is unoriginal, that humanity pretty much is very like a monkey in terms of see and do i.e. monkey see, monkey do. It is after all a safety mechanism, a monkey sees another monkey do it and thus the first monkey will do it because the second monkey was not harmed by the act.

A rebel will only rebel when he sees others rebel; teens rebel because other teens rebel and thus thinks it's cool. Hence non-conformity seems to be nothing more than another form of conformity in that by not conforming, one is actually conforming to another form of idea, that is the idea of not conforming to the first idea and embracing the second idea. Thus it would make sense to say that the true non-conformist will make a third idea and go about doing a fourth way simply because no one else is doing the fourth way.

In essence, this would mean that a non-conformer is thus by nature a loner simply because he/she will walk down a path that no one else would dare walk simply because no one has ever thought of it. Either that or he/she is fucking insane.

Alright. I've said what I've wanted to say. TTFN.