Conformity is the New Black?

Orwellian conformity has made inroads to the psyche of the youth more than at any other time in history.  If you haven't identified this phenomenon, you might want to poke around on Orwell Today. 

From the article:  Indeed, society is deeply engaged in a sort of perpetual mockery of itself.  One giant mash-up.  But to be fair, it's just that we've reached a kind of "creative critical mass".  Truly "nothing new under the sun".  We're deemed pretty darn harmless, but for those few very far-out fringe elements.  It is nearly impossible to be original unless you're on some fringe, and then you will feel the eyes of the world upon you. If it's new, it's very likely to be quickly deemed suspect.    We hear about the attempts to quell this sort of thing daily.  Much about the fringes of society  can be dangerous, no denying that.  But in this mash up of all things deemed innocuous, has all else in between extremes been subdued?

To be cool now is to conform... and sort of just deny that one has done so.
Very interesting stuff... You can check out the whole blog post here.