Lake declined an invitation to join this group. While the Village Center Westwood project is not perfect, it is the most exciting and uplifting project on the boards in Southern California today. I suggest we work together to come up with something we can be proud of and which serves residents and their families, students, faculty and staff, and everyone else in our community. Let's not kill the goose that is trying to lay the golden egg. Of course, detachment from groups can become as much a game as attachment to them.
Conformity is comfy.
It offers joys of community, the fantasy of suspending one's disbelief, and the luxury of not overworking one's mind. On the other hand, independence can also be fun as it vents one's ego. It has rewards in increased self-consciousness and a price in isolation or loneliness. Both introversion and extroversion have their rewards.