[MD] BBC documentary 'the trap'

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Khaled]
The bad side to that, is that it's hard to strike out on your own and 
soar above the rest, the good side is that the close knit clan is 
there to catch you if you fall.

[Arlo]
Dare I say "balance"? "Harmony"? Pirsig did say that the present 
movement in Western Culture is a slow drift back towards Victorian 
staticity; the domination of social over intellectual value. They 
wanted everything tidy and orderly and neat and uniform; workers 
arranged in manageable rows, schoolkids sitting quiet and properly 
waiting for the teacher to instruct them... bookstores deliberately 
uniform from coast to coast. I've often heard the same thing about 
the popularity of "chain" restaurants; you know what you're gonna 
get, that plate of pasta will be exactly identical to the plate of 
pasta you had at this chain in Orlando or Seattle. No confusion. No surprise.