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Jonathan Rayner
deference and allegiance to other men. Other paradoxes traverse the consistencies of male bonding: the championing of individuality and opportunism connected with the pioneer spirit conflicts with the humility and interdependence of teamwork; the competitiveness associated with personal ambition contradicts the obedience required in undertakings of national importance; and the desire for marriage is undermined by the precondition of mateship, which subordinates the familial existence to the social or professional