The Vine

Here’s an insightful and amusing perspective on behavioral norms from Jessica Hagy.

Funny how conformity takes on different meaning in different contexts. When did A become B without our even noticing it?

(Yes, I realize there’s a distinction. Teenage drinking = bad. Adult social constructs = for the most part, good. But let’s at least acknowledge that we’re assigning separate names to the same phenomenon. And that “being a team player” is not automatically a good thing.)

As the French playwright Albert Guinon once said, “When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong — or absolutely right.”