Conformance, it is a Disease.

Imagine, walking in a neighborhood of genius; and we happen to be not really a genius. They till see us as 'alien'. We, in the other hand, surely will see them as alien too.

We thought that nobody understands us and therefore we fell into deep depression. They, thought that we are some numbnuts who are trying to preach new culture.

Religion are built upon the culture of 'conformance'. It is a method of brainwash, rejecting any other thought, except the thought of being 'loyal', 'obedient', 'humble' and the utmost of all, 'unconditional submission' to the rule of the culture. The rules are unwritten, it is just a code of ethics mutually understood and transmitted through body languages and by indirect persuasion.

Individual who does not  conform into the conformance is an alien to the culture and society. Black sheep of the family and an example of bad example. Since the rule of the game is 'majority wins', individuals which has conformance problem (according to the majority) will always loose (according to the majority).

However, in the eyes of the individual who has conformance problem, the majority is not a winner. The majority are just a bunch of idiots who are pushy. To keep his view is a continuous struggle as the majority struggles to push in their ideals and continuously attempts to 'correct' the view of the non-conformance ones. Some non-conformance thrive in this environment because of the richness of ideals to debate about. In most cases, the majority will choose not to engage in any intellectual conversation. They have no additional knowledge beyond their boundary.

Looking at it, both sides are non-conformance against each other, and both sides, by all definitions, conforms to their ideals. It is all perfectly harmonious. However, when any of them steps into the boundary of the other, and try to pull each other permanently into their territory, conflict grew and inharmonious they will become.

One good example is in the case of Multi Level Marketing's marketing concept. The 'seller' is pushing the ideal of being 'rich', 'achieving dream', 'successful', 'not being a failure', and so on to layman and normal people. But normal people have their own definition of those. And after these normal people lured and trapped into the concept and soon found out that it is just sweet talk and good word to force them to open their wallet, there normal people eventually revert back to their own ideals of being normal people. And when this happens, the MLM people accused these normal people as being 'lost focus'. Well, is it a 'lost focus' or is it that they realized that thats not their game?

Another good example is in the case of religion. In a community of similar faith, everybody are expected to follow the rules of conformance, none are to be different in anything, particularly in point of view. When one person have extra knowledge and that knowledge does not fit into the conformance, that one person is reckoned to be different, and also probably direct plain wrong. The rest of the community will push back the 'original' ideals into the mind of that one person until the community is satisfied. No one are deemed to be different in religion. In other words, conformance force smart people to be as dumb as them.

As usual, smart people choose NOT to submit to these conformance and choose to live they way they are. Enjoying life, and enjoy seeing others in trying to push their ideals into them.

Why I call it a disease? Because it spread through generations.