I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the…

I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual… the individual’s integrity of speaking and acting only on the individual’s own within-self-intuited and reasoned initiative… the individual’s never joining action with others as motivated only by crowd-engendered-emotionalism, or a sense of the crowd’s power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one’s own intellectual convictions.

Sourced, Critical Path (1981)

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