Formalism

I am a traditionalist, but I am also a pragmatist and thrive on versatile thinking and responses. To love and conduct ourselves with a strict adherence to established forms and conventions is not only limiting, but limiting quite often in a stupid, foolish or sometimes a flagitious manner.

I am too much of a Midwesterner, too much blue-collar and farm-bred to stand on ceremony, and formality. They have their uses, but are not to be allowed to stifle the individuator because collectivists and nonindividuators too often find comfort in mindless rituals.