Who Is Colin Wilson A Conformist

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” by Colin Wilson has a very strong meaning to it. Wilson is challenging the average man by stating that what he does is insufficient and that the average man should do more. He says that the average man just accepts it when bad things happen to him and he doesn’t do anything about it. Personally, I think that he is challenging people like the ones in his quote to step up and do more than what they are currently doing. I believe Colin Wilson is saying that the average man is too much of a wimp, the average man conforms to what is normal, and the average man doesn’t stand up for himself. To begin with, I believe that Colin Wilson is saying that the average man is too much of a wimp for his own good. He says that the average man is a conformist. The definition of conformist is a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices. He is saying that an average person has no backbone and doesn’t have the guts to stand up for himself. Wilson doesn’t think he is going to stand up for what he thinks is right and is going to conform to whatever is accepted no matter what he thinks. Any man or woman who acts like this has no back bone and will never get …show more content…
They aren’t going to strive to be better than what they already are and in return they will never become greater. They are fine with being the same boring person every day and will never try to change what they do. If you do the same thing and act the same way, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. There is another famous quote by an unknown author that says, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” Which basically means that if you don’t strive to be different, you’ll just accept what normal and never experience any