When the World Has Goofed Insane, We Need Self Reliance

In an age of chaos, we need self reliance. When you can't trust anybody around you, you need to learn to trust yourself. And emerson's philosophy has been taken to task and damned and attacked and critiqued. Many have tarnished him as spoiling american literature,. But indeed, as i read through the book, i see a lot that i find myself in sympatico with. Now this is tricky, because emerson is an endless advocate for individualism. Yet when i read an essay like self reliance, i find myself also being thoroughly in dealistic.