Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
— Albert Einstein
Normies
The least interesting individuals are those who have adopted social norms and shared values as their own. As individuals they might be witty, pleasant, eloquent, and intelligent, as thinkers they are interchangeable with others who share their norms and values. It doesn’t really matter who you talk to, you will be unlikely to be exposed to a really original thought for the simple reason that these individual avoid these thoughts in their attempts to keep their worldview in accordance with the norms and values of their ingroups.
The urban dictionary defines hese people as normies (May 23, 2016). Normies are the
and describes them with the following set of observations.
Normie
A person gravitating to social standards, accepted practices, and fads of their own time & geographic grouping without broader cultural perspectives from which they draw.Normies possess a lack of interest in ideas not easily accessible or being outside of their/society’s current range of acceptance. A straight. A follower.
Most normies adopt a "popularity is the only measure of good or bad" mindset at an early age.
Normies typically have a sense of cultural superiority over "counter culture" movements & foreign cultures. They will often try to discredit out cultures or choices falling outside of their majority think claiming those of other dispositions are mentally ill or out of touch with reality.
By perspective normies of this generation would have been the social outcasts of the uber conformist 50s.
Most normies don’t believe they are so. A deep generational delusion has since persisted -allowing them to believe they are defying a system of social rules long since defunct.
This group can easily be molded to suit virtually any desired value system. In Americas capitalist system, normies have been adapted to consume whats easily attainable with little to no resistance. Popular is good. Therefore all that has been perceived to be vetted by their peers then is accepted.
As their majority cultural definitions are rooted in shallow concepts and fads that soon expire they’re often then called old.