Isn’t it funny how one is content to simply deal with the foibles of a field, until one realizes that it should not be this way, it should be that way, and then it becomes a constant source of anguish that one’s vision is being prevented from being actualized by meaningless bureaucracy?

Or is that just me? Maybe that’s why society and I don’t usually see eye-to-eye. The idea, the thought, the content, the meaning must come first, and yet society clings so tightly to the status quo that it admits no improvement on sheer principle! This is what Ayn Rand was talking about in Anthem.