#59 - Conformist Suicide

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

b'"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'