The Island of Misfit Toys

There is a peculiar thing that happens with cognitive dissonance and society. When we are confident in ourselves and our actions, we are curious as to how society will interpret and reflect that so we explore. If we don't receive validation and see no fault in ourselves or what we do but feel rejected from society, our minds get trained to see societal norms negatively and look for faults as a way to justify that view. Being rejected by the norms of society with no rational or understandable reasoning forces us to seek refuge elsewhere outside of those norms.

This is a hypothetical thought experiment but think about the idea that there is a 10% fringe group for literally everything. There is inevitably so much entropy in each of our lives that no matter what is going on, there is 10% of people that are going to view things in a completely different way than anyone else. Not necessarily even like the others in that fringe group. It's not even detectable by assessment or data of any kind, this 10% fringe group exists because of small, undetectable entropic changes we'll never figure out. Again, hypothetical thought experiment.

Is there anything wrong with the 10% fringe group? We can't know, we don't know why they are why they are.

Still hypothetical of sorts. Over time, those rejected by society for no rational reason combined with the inevitable fringe 10% create potentially two things. Culture or disassociation. Culture is created when philosophy is involved. Disassociation occurs when philosophy is absent.

The importance of the acceptance of diversity of all kinds cannot be overstated.

Philosophy is refuge for those existing outside societal norms along with those seeking to create or sustain them.

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It is hard to see from the outside but I've had a hard lifetime of experiences. Philosophy is my refuge.

I'm on a roll and I never want to stop. I have so much planned I want to do that will help others.

Please join me in hoping things go well for me in the coming times.

I'm just waiting on the fat lady to sing.