The importance of Diversity

Conformity is the Jailer of Freedom and the enemy of growth

John F Kennedy

            When we are all the same, everything is stale. Having diversity is the way we find the things that are better than the way they are. We use biological diversity to find new medicines and ways to advance society. We find new materials by looking at the strange differences between all the things in he world. We find glue, clothes, armor and food in animals, mushrooms and plants. Conformity of the natural world would cause a lack of this safety net of new possibilities. This is why we need to make sure we have new possibilities in our lives

            For the same reason why we need to have a setup, which promotes natural diversity, we need a setup in our culture that promotes a diversity in skill. There are many types of brilliant and not all of them are measured in tests. There are people who can come up with brilliant mistakes, or they can remember unseemly amounts of information. This is why we should increase the type of education we provide so that we can be provided with many new types of information. It also will allow for more of our people to have a source to find a way to help society. When we have a specific set of skills, which are the only ones, valued, than a significant set of the population will not be able to succeed. In conformity we find a lack of opportunity and thus growth. Conformity creates a lack of success in the individual and in the society.

            Conformity also is the source of the ability to bully. In conformity a group can find what is considered right. If a group finds that on in their midst is not doing the right thing this causes an empowered feeling that encourages other bullying. This is the way that bullying becomes virulent, is through a set of expected standards. It both allows for bullying by creating an expected standard, and it bullies the people who are unable to meet the expected standard.

            However the most dangerous weakness of conformity is that if everyone is the same, when a weakness becomes apparent and dangerous. This is important because for instance if all of the houses in a neighborhood have the same weakness, when one collapses all of them collapse.

            This is why we need to avoid conformity because it creates a lack of opportunity, ability for success and defense against disaster