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So you mean that cultural familiarity brings the comfort of some predictability that's lost when trying to innovate?

It's a very interesting perspective and after rereading your comment:

> I believe what Chaplin hoped to achieve was to give some outliers a way to integrate themselves into the crowd

thanks to your explanation I now realize it reminds me of Anomia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie which is thought to be caused by a divergence between personal standards and group standards.

I first had trouble following your original comment but it was intriguing, yet now with your clarifications and after rereading the wikipedia article I see your view as an extremely insightful!!

Do you believe that "We think too much and feel too little" was meant to help those who suffer from this divergence?

I would love to know your thoughts on all this, and how you weights the pros and cons of being a follower vs an innovator.