Deviation is the only thing that s kept the human race from dying off from bad ideas, lack of style or just plain boredom, not to mention tyranny, incompetence or stupidity. It is the one irrepressible, ineludable constant of human existence. It is the deviant, at first persecuted, then martyred and worshipped, who changes society, starts all the new religions and philosophies. On a less grandiose scale, deviation worms its way into fashion, art, sex and every other form of human conduct, often while the guise of perfect respectability is maintained. Deviance is a basic necessity of life, on a par with food, shelter and clothing.
Society seeks to maintain the status qu o out of pure bloated inertia.
Conformity was required, the status quo worshipped. Look through any window in suburbia to see men dressed in leotards or neo-nazis in full regalia drowning kittens in bathtubs, while through ghetto windows you see earnest young dope dealers and pimps chasing the standard capitalist dream. Sexual and other deviations are shunned in the ghettos while the suburbs provide the privacy, leisure time and money to engage in such activities. It is the pointlessness and boredom of middle class life more than anything that spurs and motivates people into a life of deviance. Many Gays in New York, San Francisco and other big cities are escapees from middle class conformity.