Amazing! Fascinating stuff, thanks for taking the time to reply.

Are we just finding out about an existing behaviour or has something changed in their environment to bring it on?

Well done you. The rest of humanity wakes up and reassembles themselves and the world as we know it almost the same way every morning.

I conform to this non-conformity.

Therein lies the dilemma. Ooh, NEW traditions!

Define the integrity of your own mind, Are you different when you wake up every morning? No. You're the same you. When you change your mind about something - say, I no longer think Ralph Waldo Emerson has a valid point about the integrity of the mind and self-reliance- am I being less me or more me by denying his definition of me?

His confabulation of mental states and the physical, real-world reality of many people seem to be at odds.

What does greatness mean? World's biggest serial killer? Celebrity? Wealth? Loving my girlfriend more than you love yours? Most greatly questioning Emerson's aphorism?

What does self-reliance mean? The government produces (nearly) all the money in circulation. Even if you refuse to use money the value of the things you are exchanging comes down to dollars or pounds or euros, whether you use them or no except in a few teeny tiny circumstances.

Large numbers of very rich, very biased people feeding you shit to suit their own ends at your expense.

Also how you end up with Trump or here in the UK Brexit.