I drive a truck for a living and listen to a lot of audiobooks , ive listen to "self reliance " over 10 times , truely an awesome, inspiring read

Great analysis.

Very solid review! Nice job!

Great analysis! thank you after 8 years

Awesome and very helpful analysis! I can see how much passion you have about literature and it's infectious. Thank you :)

I agree, this has helped me so much in my American lit class. Thank you so much for putting this in simpler terms!

I find that when I read Emerson...it's very easy to interpret his message as essentially saying there is no right and wrong. In fact, it's difficult to reconcile (for me, at least), where compassion, "good" will, selflessness and the like fit into this overarching imperative of individualism. For example, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it". This quote conveys a message that is incredibly dangerous, and from my perspective, can only be understood as a defense for sociopathy or psycopathy.

A very informational video about this essay, which gave me a lot of insight into Emerson's way of thinking. Keep up the good work, you're doing a great job in these analyses.

Really opened up my mind 💗

amazing and absolutely easy to understand

You video was very helpful to me. thank you so much. :D

Just ran across this video....really , really good , i leaned alot...thank you sir

Excellent analysis! Thanks so much! :)

Very good presentation.

That's really wonderful! Thanks a lot for helping me, I'm still getting hardly this whole interpretation from this text!

Awesome job thank you

Thank you for this!

thanks, that was an awesome analysis and interpretation!

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Thank you for his it really has helped

This is great!! Thank you :)

Very nice video..

The ancients, like Herodotus, thought travel necessary for learning, but we have better means of communication now.

wow your the best, thank you!

Great Vid!!

Why exactly were Henry james and Hawthorne against Emerson?

In stressing the need that each individual find out the truth for themselves, does Emerson repeat the approach of Socrates?

fuck yeah

RWE is difficult to read. Self Reliance is not as difficult as some of his pieces. I recommend reading it about every 10 years as your understanding will be different as you mature. Some people of his time though RWE a little cold - and you learn why they thought this in this piece. He was not interested in small talk and drivel. He was the first "guru" lecturing about the country. Today, the tradition goes on with Depak Chopra and Wayne Dwyer etc. all basically saying the same thing, although science (quantum theory, astronomy and biological research) add further support to what earlier sages knew intuitively. RWE liked the spirituality of the church before everyone showed up - when it was silent. He knew the silliness of focusing on the messenger rather than the message. There was a mistrust of books and the written word as we find in Lao Tze. All these people experienced the universal force and tried to teach others how to share that experience. RWE is worth reading and thinking about and discussing. Good job Nick.

Lude 17:21-the kingdom of God is within you.

This guys hairline looks like the yin and yang symbol

Drinking game: take a drink every time he says "uh"