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Crossword 304: Adaptation

Frederick Richard Lee and Thomas Sidney Cooper, Evening in the Meadows
Frederick Richard Lee and Thomas Sidney Cooper, Evening in the Meadows

In my remarks on my last puzzle I had occasion to mention my alienation from alienation; today I recommend a better reaction to a sense of personal difference and exclusion: adaptation.  It’s what allows us individually to survive and collectively to evolve.  If you don’t fit in, if you’re different from other people, change!  Nonconformists, mavericks, contrarians—who needs them?  Join the herd!  And if that herd is stampeding over a cliff, you’ll live a little longer by stampeding with it than by falling beneath it, and die maybe a little less unpleasantly.

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