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One way to rebel without rebelling is to pursue the exact same ideals as those pushed by your culture, except better.

(Greg Egan proposed this technique in his novel, Quarantine)

Snarking off about the ubiquitous hypocrisy would be one level of that, of course. (Seen in much popular comedy.) But there are higher.



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