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    1. 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

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    2. 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
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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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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    4. 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."

      3 replies 9 retweets 15 likes
    5. 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.”

      3 replies 13 retweets 13 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      20. RT @PatBlanchfield the cause of death of Emerson's beloved son Waldo was scarlet fever; the loss utterly devastated him.

      3 replies 7 retweets 4 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      21. I take the point that some have made that this sort of speculation is an over-generalization.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      22. But as always, this twitter essay is an attempt, a stab at understanding, a preliminary sketch or note. Not meant to be definitive

      5 replies 6 retweets 7 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      23. In any case, when I hear an anti-vaxxer say "my child is pure" -- that phrase echos such a fraught, deeply rooted cultural tradition.

      7 replies 11 retweets 11 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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      24. Of course, the secessionist impulse of Thoreau & Emerson had moral roots: need to reject social order that tolerated slavery.

      3 replies 10 retweets 8 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015

      25. But once you take that Emersonian impulse away from its specific abolitionist context, you can end up with a very selfish worldview.

      7:16 AM - 3 Feb 2015
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        2. George Grella‏ @gtra1n 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet To get to that selfish worldview you have to take away a hell of a lot more than the abolitionist context, that’s not a fair idea

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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          @gtra1n Right: but there is a way in which Emerson was forerunner to Herbert Hoover & Ayn Rand, as well as the hippies.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Feb 2015
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          26. Emerson is the all-father: the precursor of much good and ill: of Herbert Hoover, Ayn Rand, the Beats, hippies, anti-war & anti-vaxx.

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        3. Andrew Kahn‏Verified account @andrew_m_kahn 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet and don't forget his literary legacy, through Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Stevens, Ammons and on and on

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        1. Robert Crosby‏ @Otey71 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Explains why Emerson has so little influence outside US?

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        1. Aaron Boothby‏ @ellipticalnight 3 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet This is why Emersonian is never to be confused with Emerson or his writings and thought. Disciples are bad readers.

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