I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

I learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn’t learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Accepting employment in any organization requires the new employee to adjust their personality in order to meld in with the operable business environment and applicable social climate. An employee whom cannot parrot the ideas, standards, mores, and ethical mandates of their professional organization might endure a turbulently relationship that will expose their core ideology.

Fitting in" is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds.

Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein