One of my most prized possessions around the age of 11-12 was the Escape from Colditz board game, which my mates and I played incessantly. Is pop culture convincing us to conform to this nonconformity? Du Bois (c. 1911) by Addison N. ScurlockSmithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A third example is when there was a ticking bomb inside of one of the patients and a doctor had her hand in the wound to try to suppress the bleeding, but once she found out there was a bomb in the wound and any movement she made could make it go off she panicked and removed her hand and ran away, but Doctor Meredith Grey quickly reacted and put her hand in the wound. Elvis Presley (19351977) was the king of rock 'n' roll, but there were also a dozen princesincluding Chuck Berry (1926), Little Richard (1932), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), and many others. The echoes of WWII are present in many aspects of American popular culture either explicitly or non-explicitly because of the way in which the lines of good and evil were very clearly defined during that time. In a post-9/11 world, there are many, especially young people, who grew to distrust the government and their seemingly authoritarian methods in the name of safety. In The Force Awakens, there are also allusions to the dangers of regime changes which echo the way in which the War in Iraq is believed to have created ISIS, a newer, more powerful villain like the First Order. Nonconformity Quotes. The Force has always been at least implied to be hereditary. They saw themselves, just as the Confederacy did, as successors of George Washington and the American Revolution. Ah-ha~. Tyler the Creator is worth listening to because he pushes boundaries, even more than Eminem does, get past the cursing and really listen to what he is saying because his music will get you thinking about some pretty big subjects.. Tyler the Creator is a perfect example of a nonconformist musician because he doesn't need money, women, and expensive cars to be heard and satisfied with his music. Here at the Museo Galileo in Florence, you can see the actual telescopes he used to discover the moons of Jupiter and much more. The dictator Adam Sutler in the graphic novel V for Vendetta is a good example as are other overlords from other dystopian futuristic fiction such as President Snow from The Hunger Games. Rock and pop music"pop" is short for "popular"are part of popular culture. Great article, not sure if it all holds water or not but well reasoned. Like the story of many geniuses, however, hers ended too soon. One of the main focuses of transcendentalism is noncomformity.