ROBERT CREMEAN: THE BEDS OF PROCRUSTES and THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS uses this figurative imagery as well as the artist's highly personal aesthetic language to examine the enforcement
of cultural conformity through myth and metaphor, communicating his own spiritual struggles and fundamental truths in a strikingly universal way.
That's called the spiral of science, but it's really those same biochemical reactions in the brain that
cause cultural conformity.
We do not detect its working where we have endless repetition of patterns, the continued control of habits,
mere cultural conformity.
The Old Story, with its demands
for cultural conformity, wants you to believe you are crazy for questioning it, much less taking steps away from its prescription for living your life and enculturating your children.
The theme of the violent enforcement of
cultural conformity in these series — cutting, trimming, and stretching to fit, and the codification of human transgressions — is in constant conflict with the singular nature of the artist's desire for truth and escape from illusions.
You probably have a relatively small circle of followers who aren't busy or disciplined enough to resist the addictive tug of their limbic systems and
cultural conformity.
There's
a cultural conformity that happens in Japan.
On the other hand, this «old world» economic and
cultural conformity has proved very profitable and created the most recognizable place in the area.