Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the individual would never achieve the fullness of his humanity, but would be reduced to the condition of the ‘Wild Child”, condemned to anomie, in other words to the absence of all law and all order- an absence that can create severe disturbances.
-Tzvetan Todorov
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