TR Gaddis tears into Dale Carnegie Pt 2 ch 1

[David Payne]

Maybe I read it wrong or am forgetting the context, but I recall taking this as a comment on the irony of mass-marketed means toward individualization.

Like reading a best seller for guidance on how to become a rising star at work, or wearing customized cufflinks, because you know my cufflinks are different than yours, there're so totally me.

A forged self.

But I think that there's also something going on here about how trying to be original, to create new things, is a fool's game, so I donno...

> On 6/2/2011 12:39 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> >> What I don't quite get is the meaning of the ". . . . the Self which had
> >> ceased to exist the day they stopped seeking it alone."