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Solitude and Leadership
- gruseom 15y agoThis essay is moving, but its subject is hard to really grasp. It's filled with things that seem like platitudes, but are not. They seem like platitudes because we think we already get them, but we don't. We live by convention, by others' opinions, and solitude in the sense the author means - finding one's own way, whether or not others approve - is frightening. The technological distractions he decries are not what's causing our fervent avoidance of ourselves, they just facilitate it.