there is certainly a deliberate contrary-ness to it, but there is the irony of 'i want to be different just like these other folk'
like the cool kids who need to make a big show about how little they care about anything
In Mending Wall - Frost's beautiful poem - he ends with:
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
indicating that the guy imagines he came up with this insightful phrase/concept, but really he's just aping what his father said
flat earth/hurricane control
it's the illusion of independent thought wrapped in the cozy blanket of group think