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** An example would be in the [[Sword of Truth|novels of Terry Goodkind]], where the main character effectively ends up as a benevolent capitalist dictator, the series having explored the weaknesses of all other forms of government. The last chapter of the series features that character ''ordering his followers'', ironically enough, to no longer do the devotion, a ritual that has over time turned the heads of his family into objects of a [[Cult of Personality]].
* The basic message of the essay ''Self-Reliance'' was "Everyone should be a nonconformist".
* This is used as a [[Logic Bomb]] (among others) in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' to combat the [[Literal-Minded]] and orderly Auditors of Reality - "Ignore This Sign, By Order".
* Lampshaded in one of [[Maus]]'s self-referential meta-sections.
** Therapist: There's no way to explain the story that you're trying to tell. Maybe there just shouldn't be any more stories.