Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ~Zappa

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Cool quote, but incorrect.

    What is considered a deviation from the norm is HIGHLY subjective, a society where the norm is to embrace new ideas would be the opposite of this quote.

    Even a society with norms that are more conservative, progress is being made, though quite slow.

    There are also times when norms have been challenged, and ended with disaster, just look at OceanGate’s Titan, Stockton Rush deviated from the norms of deep water submersibles, and no progress was made, meanwhile other subs built on existing norms have made a lot of progress

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      3 months ago

      Norms are intersubjective—neither purely individual opinions nor mind-independent facts, but rather constituted by shared social understandings. They’re “real” in that they genuinely constrain and guide behavior, but they exist only through collective recognition.