Notes From The Cave

In his essay today Om Malik shared this quote from psychologist Rollo May, observing 1950s America:

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Malik says May diagnosed this when McCarthyism was literally hunting down anyone who thought differently. The subject of Malik’s post was technology platforms, but I think in reality the quote is most applicable to where we are in the United States today. Supremacy does not seek peaceful co-existence, which is the alleged premise of the founding of the U.S., but rather conformity and compliance to a hierachial world view of winners and losers.

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