Human civilization would not function without it. I personally have mixed feelings about it. We all do it but it grates on me in some ways. I would like to be me without reservation. I bit my tongue a lot at dinner last night right? Maybe talking about the tapeworm was poor form but I was civil if weird. Prioritization of others comforts who matter to you supersede your own wants. If I was a capable man of solid inner character I would retreat to the woods and never see people again. Here I am though. Reality does not match wants.
I do think that great change and change for the good of man has been brought about by uncompromising men. But on a small scale compromise is one of the only things that keeps us afloat.
I had to look it up but this is from a movie I watched as a kid. Little Man Tate. The quote is supposedly from another.
"A reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him. An unreasonable man expects the world to adapt to him. Therefor all progress is made by unreasonable men."
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