nonconformism

Lots of White voters are tired of being tagged as bigots and white supremacists for any kind of political or social nonconformism.

Some trends from Western Europe and America nonetheless seeped in, and a streak of utopianism and nonconformism surfaces in 1920s proposals for teardrop-shaped single-occupancy airplanes and 1970s zigzagging bookcase prototypes that dangled from ceilings.

Robert Frost explored this paradox in “The Road Not Taken,” only to have his intent of mocking an indecisive friend misinterpreted by generations as an ode to nonconformism.

Free of “necessity,” it represents “nonconformism” and “abandonment.”

But as the great political scientist Samuel Beer famously argued, it was, paradoxically, supported culturally by the individualism, anti-state instincts and nonconformism of the Woodstock generation.