“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Absolve you to yourself,
and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
Excerpt From
Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We created a society with so much abundance that it needed to be sold and produced obesity. And now we are so unhealthy from this abundance that we need to sell scarcity ….
and that those who regulate their conduct by examples which they derive from such a source are liable to fall into the extravagances of knights-errant of Romance, and form projects beyond their power of performance.”
🧵René Descartes accurately calls the social media anxiety and false narratives in 1637: “Besides, fables, make one imagine many events possible, which in reality are not so, and even the most accurate of histories, if they do not exactly misrepresent or exaggerate the value…
of things in order to render them more worthy of being read, at least omit in them, all the circumstances which are basest and least notable; and from this fact it follows that what is retained is not portrayed as it really is,