Breaking Free of the Group

Drard: We can just as easily be socially ermined by rejecting a group out of resentment as we can by conforming to the group out of admiration or peer pressure. Our values, our political orientation, aesthetic tastes and even philosophical positions are heavily, often primarily, determined by others in deep and often unconscious ways thatare not chosen for their own sake. The reasons we give for our decisions often come after we've already sworn allegiance to those decisions due to ulterior social motives. This breaking free from the group can be just as socially determined as rigid adherents. Your confusing difference for autonomy, your confusing distance for independence, and your confusing originality for freedom. What does it mean if