“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.” — John Stuart Mill

The world has slid far-far away from the true and beautiful idea that noncoformity, individuality, and eccentricity are virtues — which they are — and about which John Stuart Mill, among a few others, once so eloquently wrote, back in the olden golden days when Liberty was hip and conformity a thing strictly for squares, […]