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[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010]<\/em><\/p>\n

This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers<\/a> and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance<\/a> are linked, or at least serve the same ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010] This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance are linked, or at least serve the same ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,28,34,39,5,8,11,12,14,15,42,16,17,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-art","category-contemporary-culture","category-history","category-humanities","category-law","category-miscellaneous","category-news","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-psychology","category-religion-spirituality","category-science","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-1He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16709,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/mill-on-eccentricity\/","url_meta":{"origin":6524,"position":0},"title":"Mill on Eccentricity","author":"Limbic","date":"May 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. 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