Saturday, December 4, 2021

Conformity to Others is not Salvation

We are repeatedly, constantly told what to think
The machine of civilization requires obedience
We're told every individual has worth, is unique
The forces behind conformity are never lenient
They attack until the time when we collapse
It will be beneath a weight of expectations
Our lives will be crushed beneath the wave
Until we discover our path to pure salvation
Conformity is not a thing that will ever save

"There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than
the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left
and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without
kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes."  Friedrich Nietzsche