#59 - Conformist Suicide
from The Toddzilla X-Pod Hosted by Todd Thompson
"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. -Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't suck. www.escapingthecave.com and www.christophermedia.net
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