When I stepped into adulthood, the first thing I noticed was the intensity of normative values.

 When I stepped into adulthood, the first thing I noticed was the intensity of normative values. What in adolescence had been an expectation suddenly turned into a ball and chain that a person drags along. People judged each other according to whether they owned a car, whether they bought a house, whether they obtained a diploma. They treated those who don’t drink or smoke as a child still, while they deemed “boring” and looked down upon those who are not interested in sex and lust. For they shaped their own values according to the values that society imposed on them. They had no values of their own. They were so hollow that there was no difference between them and externality itself. Whatever society was, they were the same. But isn’t that exactly the nature of society? I never carried the thought that it was made up of “individuals.” Society is created by homogeneous machines, and precisely for this reason, when one says “society,” what is meant is the reaction of the entire mass. Because the reaction they give is one and the same, which means that there are no individuals at all.