Sam- I think that usually survival demands conformity. The further down the pecking order a person is the more necessary it is for them to aquire camouflage! The cult of the individual is an indulgence of the privileged. Most human changes (whether good or evil) have been instigated by people who do not live by the rules of their society, and mostly we do not like them at all! We cannot even agree what to call them-- after all, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.