#59 - Conformist Suicide

Published: Feb. 1, 2020, 1:11 p.m.

"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." \xa0\nALSO:\xa0\n-Tending to personal and commercial attachments\n-How political and marketing swine manipulate attachments via identity\n-Meditation and Buddhist philosophy as tools to disconnect\n-Blank Slatists: Beware\n-Emerson's Self-Reliance: read it.\xa0\n-Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck.\nwww.escapingthecave.com\xa0and\xa0www.christophermedia.net