<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Many rule followers desperately want to be normal;... > {{Many rule followers desperately want to be normal; the more desperate they are, the more they want to enforce their version of normal upon you.}} {{They are not actually fighting you, they are fighting themselves.}} {{They are fighting their fears against your peace.}} {{What they fear most, is who they are beneath the camouflage of normal.}} {{The covered wreckage and half felled scaffolding of who they once were before they gave-up haunts them like an inescapable shadow-self.}} {{Their suppressed and secreted crave for their own distinctiveness, is inverted and weaponized against anyone unusual, for they remind them of their profound loss of self.}} {{Anything aberrant or uncommon reminds them, that they took the easy way out, through the wide gates of normal.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->