The Public is merely a multiplied “me.”
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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