My thoughts on Transcendentalism The transcendentalists talk a lot about imitaion and nonconformity. This makes me think about how in our society today, we spend a large amount of our time trying to imitate and fit in. An example of this is in high schools all across the US. I want to use quotes such as "For noncomformity the world whips you with its displeasure" and "inmitation is suiside" to adress how in today's society and in high schools poeple do imitate and are conformists. Things like clicks and being "popular" have been stressed in most schools to the point that people spend the majoity of their time trying to fit in and loose the unique aspects of their character. This is so different for the idea's of Thoreau and Emerson and how they believe that "imitation is suiside" and such.