I KNEW IT!!!

In the early '60s, I was pressured into joining the Boy Scouts but I refused to because the compulsory wearing of uniforms seemed odd to me. Much, much later I ascribed this to an early aversion to a crypto-fascist organization and that now seems to be more than a joke, according to this statement by the founder, Robert Baden-Powell:

You should remember that being one fellow among many others, you are like one brick among many others in the wall of a house. If you are discontented with your place or your neighbors or if you are a rotten brick, you are no good to the wall. You are rather a danger. If the bricks get quarrelling among themselves the wall is liable to split and the whole house to fall.