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--29, Part 2: The Free Spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil- Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
While Nietzsche writes it beautifully, perhaps the simplified, layman version would be:
"If you insist on refusing social obligations and violating social norms, then life becomes very hard: you will be lonely and your conscience will bother you a lot. If you fail---i.e. the pain of being outcast exceeds the benefits of independence---then no one will give a damn."
(The last part is almost tautological; if you're lonely, then most people don't care about you. The exception might be when one writes one's experiences down, as Nietzsche probably did.)
I was actually thinking it applied better to cranks than generic 'social obligations and norms'.
Also in this vein is Sebastian Marshall's The Million Dollar Question.
A very interesting post. I don't think that's more than a small fraction of what's going on, but I could believe it's a fraction.