When I was a kid around 10 I think, my grand mother had a plastic poster on the door of her room with a pastel blue background and black/red text... I think the font was in Arial or Times Roman or something similar. The poster only had 2 lines:

Rule #1 The boss is ALWAYS right.
Rule #2 If the boss is wrong read rule #1.

This got planted into my subconscious thanks to my mother who always told me that in society this is common practice. Her teachings were of conflict since we were brought up to stand by our convictions, yet there she was basically telling me to fold and just kiss ass.

At present I understand the dynamics of her words back then: why we should kiss ass from time to time. But I still can't comprehend the rising necessity for it. Personally I think it's only to feed the ego more than anything else and is a feeble attempt at gaining self confidence... but only in a perfect world, yeah I know.

Long story short, I'm at my wits end with this bullshit we call conformity. Sacrificing convictions, beliefs, values only to further ones standing in certain circles of society. What pisses me off more is that this is more prevalent in our culture, Filipinos dislike confrontation nor are frank. It may sound to be of a subtle nature but for me I call it hypocrisy.

Shit! if it weren't for my happy place I might have lost my sanity years ago. I also take comfort in the thought that is all else fails there's always prozac.