"What most people don’t understand is that the main pre-occupation of society is not to support us in living well; it’s to make everyone the same. The race consciousness that fills the physical world wants us all to act the same, to think the same, to be the same. Conventional wisdom (which is not very wise at all) tells us that change is disruptive and conformity is good.
The funny thing is, if society were successful at doing this, it would never advance into something greater. It would never grow. We would never evolve as a race. All those fantastic technological and scientific and social improvements that we have enjoyed through the years are not a result of society; they occur in spite of it."