A teacher told me that I should not read the classics, Plato, Aristotle and the stoics etc. since they had been superseded by modern thought and were of no value any longer, (He was a theist and a far left aristocrat !). So being a kid of course, I just had to read them. I did not understand all of it, did not agree with all of it, but I did know that it answered some of the lies that I had long felt I was being taught, then I knew I was not alone, and that the whole education system was a cult.

When I was standing in the middle of desert wearing the same clothes as everyone else and being told that we will sacrifice ourselves for the greater good.

No hold on wait that was the Army. ?