#59 - Conformist Suicide

"Imitation is suicide." How independent thought gets smothered in infancy, the need to belong: why standing apart from the impaired herd is not only hard, it runs against our social and evolutionary grain. Also, collective and self-delusions protecting us from unpleasant discoveries that might destroy our notions of being special, divine, or even "good."  

ALSO: 

-Tending to personal and commercial attachments

-How political and marketing swine manipulate attachments via identity

-Meditation and Buddhist philosophy as tools to disconnect

-Blank Slatists: Beware

-Emerson's Self-Reliance: read it. 

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