The Importance of Adolescence

"There's nothing so self-righteous nor so right as an adolescent imagination," he writes. "I can only pretend to be anything other than I am or feel ... for my own fulfillment and for the, for living a life that I think is ethical and truthful" The author believes most humans yearns on the one hand to be accepted, to be part of the tribe and with equal fervor in concert distinction, yearns to be apart from the tribe.