Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Independent self people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations.