codes 3 - doing your own thing

on the other hand, minding-your-own-business-ness; the trope of individuation in the face of norms and mores; testing and renegotiating social and cultural boundaries; the blurring of private taste and public self-expression; all leading to the expectation that the accept-me-for-who-i-am actualisation (maslow's to blame) justifies itself as more central than anything else: the self-definition paradigm.