MEZ OF THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS ASKS THE ORACLE TO PONDER THE PROS AND CONS OF INDIVIDUALITY VS CONFORMITY? QUESTION: IS IT PREFERABLE TO MAINTAIN ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY, OR TO CONFORM TO THE GROUP?

I’ve been watching THE PRISONER, Patrick McGoohan’s ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy television series (showing currently in its entirety on the Criterion Channel), and it has set my mind reeling. The 1968 British production tells the dream-like allegory of Number 6, a Secret Agent - (McGoohan was already identified in the public’s mind that way, having starred in the successful spy show ‘Danger…