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Begin at the beginning and go on till
you come to the end; then stop.Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
How things work in the dreamstate is always a mystery, and where the complexity of people and personalities are involved it becomes decidedly more so. Our society, any society, is chock full of artificial personality constructs and elements from which we can pick and choose when inventing ourselves or being invented, like building a player profile in a fantasy game. Is it nature? Nurture? Does it matter? What matters is what you have control over, what you can change.