"Michael J. Smith" wrote:
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> They like the predictable. When people start behaving in eccentric, self-
> determined ways, even on the smallest matters, they get nervous. It seems
> crazy, but maybe they know their business better than we do.
Well, they have Plato on their side. In the Republic he suggests that even a change in style of haircut can endanger the state.
Carrol