{"id":10088,"date":"2015-07-15T07:20:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10088"},"modified":"2015-07-15T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:20:30","slug":"the-individual-and-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10088","title":{"rendered":"The Individual and His Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Individual and His Future<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s instructive to read what authors wrote about core values a hundred or two hundred years ago, because then you can appreciate what has happened to the culture of a nation. You can grasp the enormous influence of planned propaganda, which changes minds, builds new consensus, and exiles certain disruptive thinkers to the margins of society. You can see what has been painted over, with great intent, in order to promote tyranny that proclaims a greater good for all.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(The Underground, Jon Rappoport)<\/p>\n

Here I present several statements about the individual, written in 19th century America. The authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and James Fenimore Cooper were prominent figures. Emerson, in his time, was the most famous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.\u201d James Fenimore Cooper<\/p>\n

\u201cThe less government we have, the better, \u2014 the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of [by] formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

\u201cThe former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man, and sacrificed uniformly the citizen to the State. The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual, for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.\u201d Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n

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The Individual and His Future \u201cIt\u2019s instructive to read what authors wrote about core values a hundred or two hundred years ago, because then you can appreciate what has happened to the culture of a nation. You can grasp the enormous influence of planned propaganda, which changes minds, builds new consensus, and exiles certain disruptive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7308,379,1248,5848,7309,2799,736,793,6092],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-core-values","tag-government","tag-individualism","tag-jon-rappoport","tag-national-culture","tag-socialism","tag-society","tag-terrorism","tag-twoicefloes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}