But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.