ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two central means of bringing about conformity. The first is upbringing, the second the activity of the State towards the adult nonconformist. The chapter starts with training it to defecate in the appropriate place: it ends with indoctrinating it with the attitudes of the parents. Sarte remarked: "Long before our birth, even before we are conceived, our parents have decided who we will be". But the attitudes of the parent may contradict with those of the society in which they live. It is well worth noting in all this that the most successful method of conditioning to our society is love—at least to the more "liberal-minded" sections of our society. Society however produces various child-rearing techniques. These the parent will tend to adhere to. In a society where the middle-classes, at least, have a variety of techniques to choose from, generally running in fashions—as much for the progressive parent, so-called, as for anyone else.
