<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:59:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/conformity/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Erosion of Creativity in a Technologically Driven World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artistic Expression in a Technologically Driven World Creativity is the art of tapping into our inner world, bringing to light the depths of our being, and yielding a profound transformative effect.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ai-generated/@lady-idra/the-erosion-of-creativity-in-a-technologically-driven-world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ai-generated/@lady-idra/the-erosion-of-creativity-in-a-technologically-driven-world</guid><category><![CDATA[ai-generated]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[lady-idra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:16:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/gPCasciUWmEzNYtqbGEDRoyYeseHMDTak3FVSeMY1SAahxRonPLz9ZSJqe7wsNc5p63rrFNTygNCnHAT7SxjXMcsLYPcpPgQHfSjbdPn2oZYoLA7HLsAEGW3VxWXWZQUartZ6v4hwCVaQSuDZg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE DISCIPLINE OF CONFORMITY ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, what we call “discipline” is just our ability to conform to systems, to structure, to order. You may have great ideas, raw talent, and ambition. But if you can’t align with a process, submit]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-11060/@shikumi5/the-discipline-of-conformity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-11060/@shikumi5/the-discipline-of-conformity</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-11060]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[shikumi5]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3DLAmCsuTe3ba2VJAE1ZhN2oVhekeqoshg9DUnSyUd2Cnt4YtUMpZp3szCkdMkWJocxkWyfR76w13T3gmk56pPY7evSz35c7KVbiaNRkDX5eSSNkVFvVceta3ksPKrppEaiFjdcsLpU6yK6a5678mLsKTFC2V2e?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook: How to LOVE Aging!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain discusses conformity, aggression, and human duality in classic literature, focusing on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reason/@stefan.molyneux/facebook-how-to-love-aging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reason/@stefan.molyneux/facebook-how-to-love-aging</guid><category><![CDATA[reason]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stefan.molyneux]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:22:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/cyxkEVqiiLy5czPNg6acYev351Du9gQgrBvuGckvx16xRFBbZjQ9JrbL5q91nQD6MGPjxnLmHAYAtQSD7uUyLg2Zg4ChG27aYmUjDFZATooGmANheTn58kmRvStYM3NXwgz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wiz Drip 68. Play the Game of Life to Your Strengths]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obedience. When we hear your quiet voice whisper in our ears, we hand our power over to you and forget that we’re sovereign beings. You thrive when we stop asking questions and acquiesce to the spells]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@kriszrokk/wiz-drip-68-play-the</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-150329/@kriszrokk/wiz-drip-68-play-the</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-150329]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[kriszrokk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:09:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQygJ5a3PGGYDEXK37j6PqJQS49hP9J6JhywxChpFtwHroUTkToLpmNoHPkJRSdSVxUgUuqJP3qxHdQxX973HXcudmVcjuRG6MUwqreRqkpaERoXrbdAayTwGJcWeSLmUkSiTsXb2fopvS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Parasitic Mind and Reductionism in Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the vast expanse of intellectual exploration, two seemingly disparate realms—Gad Saad's "The Parasitic Mind" and the reductionist approach in scientific inquiry—unveil a shared complexity.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/parasiticmind/@dabullidentity/the-parasitic-mind-and-reductionism-in-science</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/parasiticmind/@dabullidentity/the-parasitic-mind-and-reductionism-in-science</guid><category><![CDATA[parasiticmind]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dabullidentity]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:28:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BgxWBRxjvNho1d5owNvLc9kLkZETgqoQLu9zcBbNBbDDEp9W4DbuZJuaMfiL22zMzgK2J46SsDit9GuozT971ftFQPHyko3ek1wsf6JZf9iAwkVcjMdmHaMu5fEmSDbPyAx83mkvBbwgE22CFJP3hWTdZdrXC1ZMHt93icXLSgse96W?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Disconnect Between Thinking And Doing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think as you like but do as what others are doing. 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These]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@mada/the-covid-scam-2-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@mada/the-covid-scam-2-0</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:51:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQygJ5a3PGGYDUDAUQfmdSVQys4xPJjVYysDquA7tQDxVECk4FtD2szCASNXwkjFb7fhVHopkKfwR8cckxuV7aye63VDHESQ9s4CTQuZZS3v8hQVavKPAUroi9fyZNcBaXiufB6emcSDnn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[thinking different thoughts, May 3rd]]></title><description><![CDATA[thought's today Genshin's about the little things Ikigai Impact I play that 'gacha game' for the aestheticism of it. Genuinely speaking, I saw it as a neat playable version of Avatar: The Last Airbender.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@thatkidsblack/thinking-different-thoughts-may-3rd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@thatkidsblack/thinking-different-thoughts-may-3rd</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thatkidsblack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 22:53:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3RTd4iuWD6NUeJEn5AVrJUoyatFqBqfcCJi1N7UixR4g2KPKN7w8NpZLDnJQjpKHByry35Gi16CS272sG2Q1EPiHVZeBbdj4WeKGPLbRH37M8QCr4xcdCtENumtwZ1qWKEhQzN5odWGhNM2YJ4ji3tUxhYE2bJgnzsvSmXanvJ7Dbc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Daily Meme #691!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you submit to the logic that submitting will make you safer? Going along to get along is how you confront life? Might want to reconsider that policy. People are getting fed up with where that policy]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/conformity/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-691</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/conformity/@antisocialist/the-daily-meme-691</guid><category><![CDATA[conformity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[antisocialist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 17:59:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvGBHDnRaj2z6FsL6XEQR3pnqa26GnVNZ2gMiS98WyRvBBAWr5j7k3WgnYGzYx2GEv3hf7dVqpc4kyLj82izhbwqaUJwmNSFgzUFV4AJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cancel Culture Utopia: A Dystopian Tale of Conformity and Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the world of tomorrow, the concept of gender was a distant memory. The government had long ago declared that gender was a social construct and that it was unfair to categorize individuals based on their]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/authoritarianism/@optouttoday.com/the-cancel-culture-utopia-a-dystopian-tale-of-conformity-and-control</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/authoritarianism/@optouttoday.com/the-cancel-culture-utopia-a-dystopian-tale-of-conformity-and-control</guid><category><![CDATA[authoritarianism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[optouttoday.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:32:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FxX5caie56yrFjfYj3tpunGb8FRXWvtmLqzNQ88zWrEPDzyXquPNBZ8wSDrigmuDLPp8ek3yBpP7ErKBgNmUGQydmyP2YEGLB3SSJNLUSWhC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret Preferences in Covid Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Preference Falsification In a 1987 paper titled 'Chameleon voters and public choice,' Timur Kuran introduced the idea of preference falsification. This idea was further developed in subsequent papers and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@mada/secret-preferences-in-covid-culture</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/psychology/@mada/secret-preferences-in-covid-culture</guid><category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:02:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQygJ5a3PGGYDUDAUQfmdSVQys4xPJid1TPKicRbmyvKZMExCVS7P3G5Y8z5pdzZpusQt1Tn7v3bjpV2MwScCDWueBbytnHiVaxZL983MSy7tZuHbbVBKRCCDFCk5w9bbhmp5QXnt5sdhQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monday Musings: Is the World We Live in Conducive to the Life We Want?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I expect most people can make the claim that they have "felt out of step with the world" at one time or another. Whether or not that is actually true, I do find myself wondering how often anyone]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@denmarkguy/monday-musings-is-the-world-we-live-in-conducive-to-the-life-we-want</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@denmarkguy/monday-musings-is-the-world-we-live-in-conducive-to-the-life-we-want</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-106316]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[denmarkguy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:43:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLHJ6f5P7HArQE3XTCa6iT57taK83u5i2ctC8EUxFijiwLfMLRTWWhMRZDBYuuR9oY6WqefB87DgkJTxDdmdTS5aBeWA5yzTdbQ4yFcs8nPBFGoyEy2W2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wilkes Truth Social Conformity and TV Mind Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Wilkes Truth Social Conformity and TV Mind Control Thank you to those who send supportive messages about my legal action described below with video link to channel social3state. Your support and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/ahlsjrgq</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/ahlsjrgq</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-140662]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livingthetruth11]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:16:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwr5bsMXthzYLbcngN4W2P8NtU9TWTdHC3HaQbjuuRfHesJoVvUfvD7qv3csvKr6CrK6ECCWRovRVr1pW878J7ctFsuiP6K3VXJskBb9BkcyHFYse4njbQgNz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitting in can be dangerous to yourself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A friend spoke to me today about always feeling different, of never fitting in. High school is no doubt the most punishing of the schooling experience; kids of that age are going through puberty, discovering]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@mingus/fitting-in-can-be-dangerous-to-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@mingus/fitting-in-can-be-dangerous-to-yourself</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mingus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:19:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZT3HzV5tJDiU2ik81PCd4JCyhWnRcDN8XJsVFY3UNB8DCYTHdx4nPCY4pU2XS9h8kSy9tmy6RmV1bY2gXLnmdQ5ddZ9hVWc9WBxsJb8vuNZuphEDADX7pdcn4raW9r3ud9btcVVECwrjA6FoNkt2PN1dLz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[LIfe is a container]]></title><description><![CDATA[You might wonder why I picked this title for my latest drawing. It might sound too abstract, too gloomy, too depressing. 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For his funeral?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is not really an entry to The Silver Blogger Community's initiative, Silver Prompts, because right now my mind is not on collecting my retirement funds when I turn 65; at the rate my sisters have]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-181465/@carolkean/a-man-was-born-he-lived-and-he-died-did-he-budget-for-his-retirement-years-for-his-funeral</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-181465/@carolkean/a-man-was-born-he-lived-and-he-died-did-he-budget-for-his-retirement-years-for-his-funeral</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-181465]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[carolkean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:28:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45dy2WX9Z7kFCaTaMAAXx7RbLekFVS5q4hzwx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Contrarian's Musings On Retirement Accounts]]></title><description><![CDATA[When we are young, we are pushed, implored, and downright coerced to invest in retirement accounts. 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