My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.