04-14-2019, 07:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-14-2019, 07:24 AM by AspieMillennial.)
(04-13-2019, 09:19 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-13-2019, 08:50 AM)sbarrera Wrote:(03-28-2019, 04:04 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Then explain why so many Millennials are NEETs by choice, especially ones with autism or who don't fit in with their peers? For the individualistic Millennials many of us decide to reject the entire world around us. What's less mainstream than that?
Well, if they all do it, it becomes mainstream.
I have a agree with this in full. Mainstream is a concept based on acceptance, not some arbitrary standard. Human sacrifice has been mainstream in some ancient cultures, so there seems to be no outer boundary except general acceptance of any given belief or practice. The blowback to bad choices comes later. The practice, good or bad, has to occur first.
Then by that standard the prophet dropping out the mainstream was mainstream. Each generation makes its own specific society. I would argue that a Civic dropping out the mainstream is less mainstream than a prophet doing so because then the dropping out isn't a big trend but on the actual fringes.