Conformity

Full Title or Meme

The struggle between human individual identity and Conformity to the Common Good will always ebb and flow as technologies change the ways that humans interact.

Context

• Humans are social animals, human society grows as the Common Goods of the society accumulate, but individualism has been the goal the past 200 years, or at least since the publication of On Liberty
• The Web has grown up with a strong dose of Anarchy. See the wiki page Declaration of Independence.
• Although this wiki is mostly about identity on the Web, the use of identity politics is based on what that a human thinks of themselves in the real-world, which influences the way that identity is representing in the digital world. In an interest self-help column Vanessa Friedman<ref>Vanessa Friedman, Here to Help says that