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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      7. This is Calvinism as modified by Whig politics, and given social form on the frontier and philosophic heft by Emerson & Thoreau.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      8. The elect: Winthrop's City Upon a Hill, Jefferson's natural aristocrats, Emerson's self-reliant individuals, Thoreau in Walden.

      2 replies 11 retweets 5 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      9. The elect: the Fourierist farms, Huck and Jim on the raft, the homesteader on the frontier, the hippies in their commune, homeschoolers

      6 replies 12 retweets 10 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      10. It's easy for liberals & leftist to see secessionist politics as purely selfish & reactionary: Confederacy, "white flight", "going Galt"

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      11. But we can't fight with Emersonian individualism adequately without dealing with fact that it has attractive side & not just selfish

      2 replies 15 retweets 14 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      12. Emersonian individualism also means thinking for yourself, refusing to accept authority just on society's say, forging a unique self

      6 replies 18 retweets 14 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      13. (Side note: both @MonicaBPotts & @zunguzungu say I should include Second Great Awakening in this genealogy of ideas).

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      14. Beyond the power of the individual to over-ride social rules, Emersonianism is a celebration of mind & will

      3 replies 5 retweets 6 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      15. The Emersonian individual can think his or her way through transcendence: this emphasis on mind & will also has deep cultural resonance

      4 replies 7 retweets 7 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      16. Mind over matter: Christian Science, the power of positive thinking, Scientology. Disease defeated by purity of will, not medicine.

      3 replies 14 retweets 10 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015

      17. The anti-vaxxers believe they are pure & the rest of society is corrupt. That they owe society nothing. They are Emersonians.

      6:52 AM - 3 Feb 2015
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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          19. Robert Frost: “But Islands of the Blessèd, bless you son,/ I never came upon a blessèd one.”

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        2. Elon-o Musk-o‏ @wandrngscholar 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet I think there's also a way individualism has been bastardized/pop culturized: "Burger King: have it your way" ...

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Elon-o Musk-o‏ @wandrngscholar 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet (Be an Individual by consuming the same mass-produced garbage as everyone else)

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        2. Robert McNees‏ @mcnees 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet This is compelling, but why do so many choose this one mode of secession? Why *this* thing where the cost is on kids & not them?

          3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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          @mcnees That's a great question. Perhaps tied in with idea of purity of children.

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        2. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet We should resist this kind of vague overgeneralization - true of some but expresses cultural polarization as much as anything.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
          Replying to @BrendanNyhan

          @BrendanNyhan Fair point. But I think cultural polarization you speak of takes a particular cultural form in USA.

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        2. George Grella‏ @gtra1n 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet you are conflating Transcendentalism with, fundamentally, theosophy, and ignoring contemporary class and materialism. Doesn’t work

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
          Replying to @gtra1n

          @gtra1n Well, I dealt with class aspect in earlier twitter essay. This isn't meant to be definitive.

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