The root of the assimilation into society.

 While observing those who have adapted to society, I notice this: the reason they are the way they are stems from an inner pressure born of inadequacy and cowardice, and nothing more. The things they love are the very things loved by everyone. The words they write are the very words written by everyone. The trends they are enslaved to are the very ones everyone chases. Even the things they think are already thought in the exact same manner by everyone else. Free spirits who have not tasted any of this, who have become their own witnesses and architects in prolonged solitude, know very well that beneath it all lies the tendency to replicate externality. For them, externality has never opened its arms; thus, their inwardness has become their externality. But for the ordinary rest, society is unconsciously accepted as legitimate.