It's kind of very depressing. Not that I think people should externalize their uniqueness in what they wear or what they like, but there must be some kind of halfway point between that and being mindless office zombies just to fit in.
it's depressing, but it's also in the natural lifecycle of trends to protest the status quo and go in the opposite direction! I think most people though, except for early adopters and the eccentric minority, tend to eventually find a middle ground between individuality and conformity regardless of where the pendulum of the zeitgeist is at any moment in time.
I agree with you, but I think it's out of necessity. I don't think it's possible to keep up either extreme for a long time and I can't see "normcore" being anything other than emocional suicide in the long run.
I also believe that the problem with the previous trend is that it pushes people to express an identity, not necessarily a real one or one that shows the depths inside each person, so it ends up being just as shallow as wanting to conform. What I mean is that the search for a unique identity was approached from the outside which is, in my opinion, in the opposite way it should be approached.
It's kind of very depressing. Not that I think people should externalize their uniqueness in what they wear or what they like, but there must be some kind of halfway point between that and being mindless office zombies just to fit in.
it's depressing, but it's also in the natural lifecycle of trends to protest the status quo and go in the opposite direction! I think most people though, except for early adopters and the eccentric minority, tend to eventually find a middle ground between individuality and conformity regardless of where the pendulum of the zeitgeist is at any moment in time.
I agree with you, but I think it's out of necessity. I don't think it's possible to keep up either extreme for a long time and I can't see "normcore" being anything other than emocional suicide in the long run.
I also believe that the problem with the previous trend is that it pushes people to express an identity, not necessarily a real one or one that shows the depths inside each person, so it ends up being just as shallow as wanting to conform. What I mean is that the search for a unique identity was approached from the outside which is, in my opinion, in the opposite way it should be approached.