This chapter discusses the barriers of fear and laziness that prevent people from choosing non-conformity as a means of escaping the sickness of modern society. It emphasizes the importance of overcoming these barriers and highlights the value of hard work, discipline, and persistence in cultivating one's own path through life.
“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. . .If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The great 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that to flourish […]
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Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society first appeared on
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