Today's #Thought

"#Pluralism.
#Democracy reigns in the country,
in society #Darwinism,
in the company #oligarchy,
in the consciousness #conformism,
in the subconscious #anarchy."

Rainer Kohlmayer

👉Academia has never been really about Knowledge and research but social class, power dynamics and inequality.
#Ableism
#Conformism
#Slavery
#Hierarchy

Tackling isssues like #femalesolidarity #materialism and #conformism this #book #confessionsofanuglystepsister by #gregorymaguire is a #retelling of #cinderella #story
#newpurchase #orangeisthenewblack #orange #2023 #midureads #bookstagrammer #bookstagram

One-third of young people in #CEE fully agree or quite agree with their parents on political issues, while 28% somewhat disagree or entirely disagree. Among the #Visegrád countries, young Hungarians are the most likely to agree with their parents.
#conformism #youthstudies

"Ironically, what we need most badly now is something that’s most difficult to get in our age of compulsive conformism: an authentic contrarian spirit. It is from contrarians and dissenters and other pariahs that we can learn the craft of unherding, and yet they are few and far between."

#Academia #Conformism #Philosophy

Aeon: On nonconformism, or why we need to be seen and not herded.

https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded

@clacke

As a weirdly weird person, I respect everybody, weird and non-weird, from all over the world.

BUT as far as I can see, #US non-weird people are (being manipulated so that they are) actively working to further marginalize weirdos.

The fact is that living and working with weird people is going to be weird by definition.

People can accept this and adapt to such weirdness or refuse this and expel us.

For a few decades #FreeSoftware has been a sort of "safe place" for weird people. Even because of people like #RMS (which I consider moderately weird, actually 😉).

For sure, some exploited such safety to misbehave, but these were not #hackers, but #crackers posing as such (for proper definitions of these terms look at http://www.tesio.it/documents/vademecum.txt )

And now that Free Software is fundamental to #business and has a huge economical value, giving access to actual #Power, the #OpenSource lip service isn't enough anymore and some urge to redefine free software as something that is... less weird (in US #corporate perspective, obviously, as many US people can't think about different perspectives).

I don't think this is going to improve the life for non-weird people (as most of them are basically oppressed people that internalized the oppressors' values themselves and thus heartily and unconsciously support the oppression system).

But it will increase #conformism, further marginalizing us.

@dthompson

@downey

If you want to retreat I'm fine with it. 😉

But I don't see how exactly #RMS would have betrayed public trust.

Surely, many want to remove him since years because he is way harder to manipulate through social networks than a lynching mob. I guess that many at #GAFAM are high fiveing right now.

But if I ask you "what did he do exactly?" and you retreat instead of answering the question, you show pretty well how thin are his allegations.

Did Stallman tried to spread proprietary software? Not to my knowledge!

So how exactly did he betrayed #FreeSoftware?

He resisted to #OpenSource's #conformism that want to manage high skilled volunteers like if they were employed at an #US based corporation!

THIS IS A MERIT!
You are failing to see (or pretending to) that #GNU and Free Software are international movements and US corps have no right to impose their workplace hypocrisy.

So what?
This isn't a rethorical question.
Can you answer with precise allegations that are not crimes?

*Be this guy!*

#meme #nazis #fascism #conformism