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And what is a good citizen?  Simply one who never says, does or thinks
          anything that is unusual.  Schools are maintained in order to bring
          this uniformity up to the highest possible point. 
                  H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
          

Plasticity is a double-edged sword: the more flexibile an organism is the
          greater the variety of maladaptive, as well as adaptive, behaviors it can
          develop; the more teachable it is the more fiully it can profit from the
          experiences of its ancestors and associates and the more it risks being
          exploited by its ancestors and associates; the greater its capacity for
          learning morality the more worthless superstitions, as well as traditions
          of social wisdom, it can acquire; the more cooperatively interdependent the
          members of a group become the greater is their collective power and the
          more fulsome are the opportunities for individuals to manipulate one
          another; the more sophisticated language becomes the more subtle are the
          lies, as well as the truths, that can be told. 
          	Donald Symons
          

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