The Injunction to Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back

The injunction to stand up straight with your shoulders back is a description of how to present yourself properly in the world, physically. But it's also an injunction to a certain kind of courage. Because ou no human beings. We're very strange animals because we walk on two legs, and that means the most vulnerable surfaces of our body are actually exposed. To crouch defensively or to shy away from manifesting that vulnerability in the world,. that's, that's a, that's to shrink away from lifeand i mean, it's not surprising that you might want toshrink away from life.