The barrier

that hides our inner worlds

a world we share

even recognize

if we could look over

these barriers              

Nochrisis

Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.

Erich Fromm, The art of loving