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Walking alone to the sound of your own footsteps.

Everywhere we are confronted most terribly with conformity.

People walk on the paths, and avoid the forbidden carpets of grass. People eat one food with a fork but never with a spoon. People shy from one monstrosity, yet lovingly adopt another. We are programmed, be it by nature or nurture, by innate predilection or learned tendency, what to do, and how to do it. Education is propaganda.

Genes instill us with age-old, evolutionary instinct: and the stomach rumbles, the blood boils and the passions stir. Society teaches us shock at nudity, love of money and ridicule of failure. Teachers impart to us the plausible daydreams of the physicists and biologists and chemists. Corporate business, through the supplications of lure and want and credo, engage us to wear the uniform, drink the going drink, and purchase the latest necessity.

Our society, from the moment of our emergence, is imploring us to adopt and adhere to its rules, its regulations, its taboos and its no-nos. Our are su...

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