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In 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay entitled "SELF-RELIANCE". Are you familiar with it? Have you ever read it?

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, little statesmen and philosophers and divines"

In this essay he emphasized the critical importance of avoiding CONFORMITY and a FALSE CONSISTENCY.

He emphasized the critical importance of following YOUR OWN INSTINCTS and IDEAS.

Now when the small minds have no ideas or instincts of their own what are they to do?


The panicky pandemic pumpkina** adoring worshippers all fit the bill of "foolish consistency".

They are as attached to him now if not more so than they were before. They are incapable of independent THINKING so they are easily formatted and programmed and templated into their small minded ruts and never seek to get out. What would they do on their own? Die of course.

And so you can see a WORST CASE model of FOOLISH CONSISTENCY.

Everyone says so. What could it hurt? What do you have to lose? Build the wall. Lock her up. Send her back. Rackety rack crack crack crack yack yack yack ACK!

Posted - August 12, 2020

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