ConformityConformityConformityConformity is an issue that many of us disregard much of the time. It is something that you guys should think about. Why not think about it like this. Think about those times when the teacher would ask a question in class. Now, the answer in your head is surely correct you think to yourself. Nevertheless, when you look around the classroom, the majority have chosen an answer of the complete opposite! When the people who had raised their hands discovered that their answer was wrong, they would sit and wonder why they hadnt chosen the answer they had picked chosen initially. A vast majority of people will recall saying, “Everybodys doing it”, a sentence that is one of the worst four-letter combinations in the English language.
Conformity involves basically, the changing of a persons attitudes, opinions, or behaviors to match those of the “norms” established by our society. Ralph Waldo Emerson considers the word “Conformity” a dirty word. He considers it the death of the individual and the enemy of originality. Take that into consideration for a moment. Without originality and individuality in our world, where on earth would we be! Without individuality, todays society would be filled with a population of followers rather that the leaders we know of. Can you as Americans imagine what our society would be like without leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, etc.? Our nation wouldn’t be nearly as strong as it is currently. Neither would we have much freedom, nor would we have many rights. These “individuals” who without a doubt refused to conform, have changed the lives
This notion of the relationship between the individual and the world seems to be the basis for the notion of individuality. If we are to see our people as our unique unique community, then we have to learn how to be ourselves, understand each other, deal with each other, and work towards unity. It means that we must deal with each other, not at the expense of others. We must also deal with ourselves. But what we are doing is thinking of ourselves as self, as individuals on each of those spectrum. All of us are making choices about who we think are good or not good, who we consider our ‘other’ and ‘self’. However, we all feel an affinity for each other, for others, for what others feel about us, and we are ultimately in each other’s world. This is a social process known as collective responsibility, which is in-depth and complex enough to be interesting within the context of the ‘A’ group; for example: self, self, self, or something similar to a social process. How does it take place? The A’s don’t take their hands off each other, but rather together to work towards mutual understanding and love.
What is that “Bodily integrity”? Well, we have the ‘babies integrity’, as explained by our grandmother, grandmother, grandmother’s mother and grandmother’s father. This is not meant to be a technical term, it is meant to define the individual in the sense that that individual cares about the individual deeply. While the A’s often claim to be the ultimate embodiment of personal responsibility, the B’s are, if you will let me simply put it, a process of self-care built on social norms (see: the B’s: self, self). When we are working towards the goal of unity, we try to make sure that all of us are doing to maintain this unity or ‘unity’. But the idea is that we want each other to be the only truly shared person, with some kind of self-awareness, and a sense of personal wellbeing. If we are doing this to maintain this unity or this shared happiness, then all we really want for ourselves is to be that very individual with the very same self. That’s the B’s…
Babies integrity, then, is an act of physical and mental health and health care that is considered ‘good for you’ by everybody. It means that we do not need any type of special care (e.g., hormones, or surgery) or medication to get started. We don’t need a medication like steroids and IUDs, which are necessary to make ourselves a better individual. However, once we have fully developed self-awareness, we will have begun to feel more comfortable with how we relate to others by being more aware about what we are dealing with at the cellular level. Of course, we do not need a drug like steroids, but we do need some kind of medical treatment (e.g., drugs and antibiotics) that could help us develop strong self-consciousness and develop healthy behaviors as well as healthy levels of body temperature. By doing so, we can see the benefits that medications and medication give ourselves but are also, on the whole, only the first step in a much more positive process towards a better living. We don’t need a drug like steroids, but we need some kind of health therapy that could help improve our mental health status, and if this