I imagine most of us in high school were assigned the essay, Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In his essay, Emerson glories in the power and authority of the self. Emerson told us that our creative consciousness was our one source for truth and the one arbiter of our values. Emerson wrote: “Insist on yourself,” … Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reebok, and the False Gospel of Self-Reliance (eCrozier #95)