People get this idea in their heads somewhere in their teens to early twenties, and they start to 'think for themselves!' but often what they've done is scrappe

People get this idea in their heads somewhere in their teens to early twenties, and they start to 'think for themselves!' but often what they've done is scrapped a common majority set of ideals, for localized, usually contrarian ones. Nirvana had a 4th band member (Jason Everman) who quit because according to Dave Grohl, he thought 'the punk scene was too conformist!' - i.e. you had to dress a certain way, act a certain way, hold specific beliefs or else you were 'uncool'. In other words: Punk Wasn't Punk! It could be argued it was a counter-cultural/mainstream movement, but a very specific and narrow one at that. And so he joined the Army and became special forces.