What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
I'm a freak everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will my jazz teacher set up everything completely flat and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
