custom
n. 1. that collection of agreements embraced by a people
regarding what is courteous or correct behavior. As time goes by, these agreements coalesce
into the moral and legal codes of that people. Reformers and revolutionaries instinctively seek to subvert, pervert, or convert custom (and its
embodiment in the courts, the churches, and the schools), because they recognize it as the primary
barrier to their plans. This impulse to destroy custom is the primary driving force behind psychology and psychiatry in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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