How to Use Self Reliance to Become Yourself

Emerson would've been appalled to watch mobs pressure individuals into conforming and compromising out of fear, but he wouldn't have been surprised.

His essay Self Reliance is an 1800s battle cry against the ever-lurking human desire to force conformity on individuals who dare to differ.

In the full episode:

⋗ Mobs and other obstacles to individuality
⋗ What it means to become and be yourself
⋗ Becoming uncancellable
⋗ The glaring flaw in postmodernism

A certain degree of conformity keeps our culture intact and our society functioning, but when conformity oversteps this role, what do you think are the biggest dangers and losses to an overly conformist society?

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◬ Self Reliance essay: https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/self-reliance/

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