Exceptions

Everything seems similar, a rule is thought to prevail, but something seems to distort this image of harmony and goes against this rule; an exception. Some people get so accustomed to rules that an exception becomes unthinkable, especially in the rule 'man'. This rule is the worst insult to the human race; nothing offends me more than saying all men are equal or that there are no exceptions. I certainly try my best to be an exception, when the rule is mediocrity of the mind and soul, an exception is most likely to be excellence. There's just something about the the average man that disgusts me, perhaps it is the childish thinking which is implied by mediocrity; a man thinks as his spirit dictates, only a free spirit can be a free thinker. Most men are just not made for knowledge, they don't even desire knowledge; in this sense are slaves slaves and masters masters.

Perhaps things are for the best, the rule gives the exception its title and rarity gives value to the rare. Perhaps the exception is meant to be an exception; otherwise it would still be vulgar and a new exception would be needed.