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Thursday, January 06, 2005 Self-Reliance? or self-delusion? I just downloaded Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, both first and second series. The former includes his most famous bit of writing, a screed titled Self-Reliance. Not including the feel-good quotes at the beginning, here is the fourth sentence...To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,--that is genius.No Ralphy, beg to differ, dude. That is, more often than not, grotesque delusion. And this is by far the more generous of the judgments one could make of such a toweringly arrogant perspective. The harsher might include that this is the typical view of a self-appointed elite who see their deepest dearest fantasies as representing "the best" for everyone else as well. While this position usually grants itself special forms of "spiritual" insight, gunboat diplomacy is often needed to back it up in a crunch. And being white helps too. As in: That's real white of you, Waldo. 5:08 PM | link | |
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