It is the hot take thread, so my hot take is that in Emerson you find an extreme and inevitably incoherent embrace of individualism, that any hippy-dippy outlook a person may acquire in life is valid so long as itās authentic. You need a little bit of that to not become a lemming, but too much you end up writing derivative neoplatonic derp for new world rubes like:
I would have taken it back after the one about the eternal ONE, but not after the Anarchy one. It also prefigures Bakunin, Kropotkin, Orwell, Chomsky, Subcomandante Marcos and Ocalan.
I guess it really prefigured
"I heartily accept the motto, āThat government is best which governs leastā; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe- āThat government is best which governs not at allā; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. " - Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Are all of you pulling a fast one on me. How does anyone like pickles? Am I living in the Truman Show where everyone pretends to like pickles just to mess with me?
Pickles on hamburger. Ruined
Chick Fil A on there most simple sandwich just has their chicken between buns, but with pickles. Ruined
Pickle flavored potato chips. Ruined.
Iāve seen my nephews and nieces argue when I say please take these fucking pickles off my plate and they happily eat them.
I mean I get Iām in the minority, but what a terrible flavor.
When my younger daughter was little and would go to Subway (which my children loved - they hated all other sub shops because they were enemies of Subway) she would get just the bread, cheese, a lot of pickles and mustard. One time the sandwich artist gave it to us at no charge because he didnāt think it counted as a sandwich.
Take a few fresh sliced cucumbers, season with dill, garlic, put em in a plastic bag and shake them up. In fridge for a day, next day crisp garlicy dll piickle heaven