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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9409092.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %TOKEN NONCONFORMITY DANGER SIGN THREAT COLLUSION+940909 %CONTROL HIDDEN DISRESPECT HAIR DRESS JEWELRY BEARD+940909 %COATS HATS WIGS CODES RULES REGULATIONS RESPECT 940909 Many communities show respect for tacit rules, codes and regulations regarding hair styles, dress, clothing, jewelry, beards, coats, hats, wigs, etc. Conformity to these tacit rules, codes and regulations are tokens of respect for conformity to social expectations. Non- conformity to these rules, codes and regulations inflicts less serious harm on anyone than do murders, rapes, assaults, and robberies. Yet, non-conformity to such rules, codes and regulations often cause much consternation and psychological discomfort. Why? When people fail to (or refuse to) conform to tacit rules, codes and regulations they do violence to the tokes of respect for conformity---and fear is engendered that more serious forms of non-conformity may follow. The false sense of security and trust which offers comfort to many people is violated by non-conformists who violate the symbolic tokens of conformity, and so token non-conformists are viewed with alienative fear. In many communities creative insights into communal dilemmas and technical problems are inhibited by extreme patterns of conformity. Creativity entails non- conformity. To promote creativity one must help people to feel free to be non-conformists at least in the realm of creative work. Pervasive respect for tokens of conformity can thus undermine creative work and all of the sweet fruits which creative work can yield. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================