when the phrase 'People should know their place [in life]'
lost its public currency and power to shame.
Anyone who says it now only ever says it in private.
As a phrase its declining value can be measured
against the rise of advertising as the presentation of choice.
Though that choice does mean 'no freedom from advertising'.
The place where we learn to know ourselves
should be the only place we should ever really accept.
Though I know we progress towards there
only by serendipity, mistakes and experience.
If we come to know ourselves then we may know others.
That is the only way we will be truly accepted just as we are.
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