Rebellion vs. confromism

[AntiochusIII]

Sorry, but that's what the French teacher asked for his essay.

Therefore, in order to demonstrate yourself as out-of-the-mainstream (rebellious? Could be...could be not...), seek the third option, deliberately so.

It gives you and your work a certain panache. (Homework, I presume?) You will find the entire essay easy to write as you spend most of your time justifying the third (fourth? Or infinity?) way and little in belittling the two original ones.



The analogy would be flying out of the box, rather than burning and redecorating the box or accepting it as it is.

But fly where? That's yours to answer, not mine.

As for the discussion at hand: rebellious is man's nature; he wishes not to be controlled by another of his equal position: being human. It is natural that he would rebel against existing authority, even if superficially or mentally, before carving his place in society. Of course, he himself might return to the flock bruised and battered and decided to conform with it. Advocates of utter conformity intends to break the basic nature of man that, among others, seperates him from rivers and stones.

About a superior being, an overman or a god... that deals with another of man's nature. That includes prophets, of course, since they essentially claims superior authority.

Respect your elders. They may not be smarter, but they are wiser.

I got a lot farther in life doing as I was told, as opposed to some of my friends who bucked authority and ended up poor and cut off from their family, with no hope of schooling or a good job.

It does not surprise me coming from your mouth. Your belief patterns, if contradictory in facts and allegations, or even principles (?), at least display consistency--even historical consistency.

But where are you going?

Back to "the Box?" The cycle is a circle in your opinion, then...some would rebelliously disagree.

Seriously, you've never heard the word 'Macchiavel'?

Do you mean Machiavelli, Italian politician and author of the influential The Prince, or Machiavellian, the system of belief based entirely on the ends and none on the means?

Naughty Socrates.

(From another thread) ah...but he died for his own beliefs, didn't he? Then again, he didn't want to die, according to that testimony marble...