:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Sunday, May 19, 2002 ::

"Because of the instinct of rebellion, man has never been content, finally, with the limits of his life: it has caused him to deny death and to war with morality. Man is a rebel. He is committed by his biology not to conform, and herein lies the paramount reason for the awful tension he experiences today in relation to Society."
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"Today, in the struggle between man and Society over the issue of conformity, Society is winning becasue man, the rebel, does not yet know how to rebel successfully--positively. his protest is expressed in negative forms, in ways which may discharge somewhat the energy of his rebellious instinct but which yield him little profit; indeed, in ways which are often actually harmful to himself and to the community. Non-conformity, as it is now conceived, is largely exhibited as psychosis, neurosis, crime, and psychosomatic illness; or it appears as pitifully hopeless and vain little defiances of convention and custom in dress, manner, opinion and taste. All of these ways are negative, unproductive, totally inadequate to meet the situation man faces."
-Robert Linder "The Pressure of Conformity and the Instinct of Rebellion"
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:: Jim Nichols 5/19/2002 03:10:00 AM [+] ::
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