I am disturbed after reading Catcher in the Rye. Like many people, as I read I heard myself saying "wow, this kid thinks exactley like me!"

but then, I realized, most people think like that. Most people actually think like Holden Caulfield.

This has made me slightly depressed. That means that I am conforming to nonconformity, which means I am not special, not all I thought I was cracked up to be.

But in a way, that is also compelling. If most people are like Holden Caulfield, then most people, on the inside, truly are free thinkers. Most people truly wish to go against the grain, but don't because social pressures force them to be "phony"

This means, that somehow, there may be a revolution. If the revolution is in the hearts of the people, then it will show itself in a time of crisis. If most people are honest, cynical, and detached on the inside it means that society can one day truly change.

I can only hope that the Holden Caulfield in all of us can find a voice, and rise up against the whole stupid buisness of manners, blind conformity, patriotism, racism and religion that so defines and defiles our society.