6. Key here is idea that a community of the elect has the right & duty to abandon a corrupt social order & create smaller, better society
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17. The anti-vaxxers believe they are pure & the rest of society is corrupt. That they owe society nothing. They are Emersonians.
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18. Robert Frost mocked Emersonian fantasy of elect with his sarcastic reference to "islands of the blessed."
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@HeerJeet cf William James's "once-born" soulThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet In theory, a not unappealing 19th century notion, a link between Romantics and Transcendentalists. -
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