All of us know someone who simply thinks and acts contrarian, just for the sake of being contrary. Mind you, this person doesn’t just share their own views, but actually tries to be different, seemingly for the heck of it.
Is this person just being an immature, pain in the ass? Is this person crying out for attention? Or is there a deeper significance to his desire to express something different?
Well, let’s take a look at the nature of perspective itself. Perspectives on the surface appear to be unique points of view through which each of us interpret the world. However if we look a little deeper, we find that perspectives seem to counterbalance each other. For every perspective on one hand, there’s an equally balanced counter-perspective on the other hand. Caution counterbalances innovation, restraint counterbalances freedom, feminine counterbalances masculine, and so on.
That said, there seems to be a primordial impulse in us to express, or even spontaneously develop on the fly, a contrarian perspective simply to offset current prevalent perspectives. It might have nothing to do with the person’s preexisting views on the world, yet nonetheless this perspective can be considered divinely inspired.