How do you look upon people who don't follow the cultures of society?

[Bronson]

There's the television. It's all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. The commercials!
We're not productive anymore, we don't make things, It's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers. Okay, buy a lot of stuff, your a good citizen, but if you don't buy a lot of stuff, what are you then? Your mentally ill, Fact. If you don't buy things: toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built in radar devices, voice activated computers.

 

[russgirl07]

Personally, I agree with them. My doctrine is one of nonconformism. And it's not because I'm a rebel; it's because I detest the brainwash and loss of individuality that people succumb to when they blindly follow the societal standards of a culture that they have deemed ideal to them.

However ,I also believe in degrees of confomism. Conformity (and probably, more appropriately, obedience) is necessary to a certain measure or else one will be socially stratified and will go no where with their firm beliefs of rebellion. It's all fine and dandy to abide by rules that protect the welfare of others, etc or to disregard rules that seem morally or just intuitively wrong. It's another case where a person just abides to any rules set down by a culture just because they want to identify with that culture. Oh look, American! People identify with being American with doing a variety of things, from die-hard patriotism to humble acts of community service. It's all up to the individual. But if the individual has lost their own sense of self and self-worth, that's when I become cynical.

So, in response to your question in my round-about fashion of answering things, I agree with those that moderate their beliefs in conjunction to what they think right of the given authority at the times. Society...eh, not so lenient. But, what can you do. Good question.