the rain." This is a quote toward the modern human by Colin Wilson. This quote is his way of explaining how humans conform to society and how conformity is a slowly increasing epidemic, one could say. People are growing to be afraid to be their own person so they follow the conformities to avoid judgement and being talked about in a negative way. To be a conformist is to follow the style or rule of other people to “fit in” and Colin Wilson does a very accurate way of describing how conformists are
the average class, or the average man is that "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." quoted by Colin Wilson. To imagine how one person could sum up the entire history or definition of a culture or class of people is oftentimes unfathomable, yet Wilson attempts to do in this quote appeared above. This quote is pondered by most modern men as to how they live their lives and