Illegitimate encounters proceed anyway when desire and fit outweigh convention

Evidence

Within a relationship of subordination, the exclusion of all spontaneity whatever is actually rarer than is suggested by such widely used popular expressions as “coercion,” “having no choice,” “absolute necessity,” etc. … It exists even in those cases of superordination and subordination—and therefore makes even those cases societal forms—where according to popular notions the “coercion” by one party deprives the other of every spontaneity, and thus of every real “effect,” or contribution to the process of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 323 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Indeed, it occasionally happens that it becomes fashionable in whole bodies of a large class to depart altogether from the standards set by fashion. This constitutes a most curious social-psychological complication, in which the tendency towards individual conspicuousness primarily rests content with a mere inversion of the social imitation and secondly draws in strength from approximation to a similarly characterized narrower circle. If the club-haters organized themselves into a club, it would not be logically more impossible and psychologically more possible than the above case. Similarly atheism has been made into a religion, embodying the same fanaticism, the same intolerance, the same satisfying of the needs of the soul that are embraced in religion proper. Freedom, likewise, after having put a stop to tyranny, frequently becomes no less tyrannical and arbitrary. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728; Interaction persists even where coercion appears total — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 323

Related

• Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject (similarity 0.83)
• Interaction persists even where coercion appears total (similarity 0.83)
• Fear of self-contradiction is the coercive engine that compels ideological conformity (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Interaction persists even where coercion appears total #corroborates (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 323
• Anti-conformity movements reproduce the conformity they reject #expands (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728