Nietzsche On Conformity

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

-Nietzsche

Individuality has always been seen as crazy because we live in a society where most of the time you can’t be different. If people were to really look at someone and expect them to follow the rules there are only two things that can happen they will either do it or not simple as that. People don’t need to be exactly the same in order to successfully coexist. Every human was born different for a reason. We weren’t meant to conform, if we were, we would still be in caves too scared to come out of the cages we would have trapped ourselves with. Why can’t people just be happy with whatever they were born with instead of trying to conform

There are many ways that conformity will seep through, an example would be by our school systems. Schools have a variety of things that lack diversity. A school becomes so full of conformity that it turns into a prison in it’s students eyes. Student’s are so full of creativity that being in school always brings their hopes and dreams down for the fact that they have to start conforming to society. There aren’t enough classes here at Foster High School that focus on different talents or careers that students want to get into, but there are enough math and science courses to last you 4 years. Since there is much promise and demand with math and science based careers the obvious answer is that you have to be good at it. I for example am not very good at math so it really makes me feel dumb when I don’t understand how to do a math equation correctly when everyone else sort of gets it, since the norm is to be good with science and math departments. On the other hand I along with many other students am more better at the arts than math and science. Which I am not very much allowed to explore much of due to the courses that we are forced to take, and the lack of diversity in the classes that are offered. This fact is making us part of the masses which causes difficulty in learning amongst students. All throughout school we are taught to be like everyone else. Why can’t we be like ourselves? Why is it that we have to fit in to be able to take part in this society. In the book “Into the wild” by Jon Krakauer we explore the life of a man named Chris McCandless. He throughout his life was an exemplary student. He took part in the roles he was assigned, even though deep inside he disliked them. In into the wild we see a letter that he wrote to his friend Ron Franz after parting ways. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a