Remix to Self Reliance

In Emerson's self reliance essay, he's trying to break through to society and let them know that you have the power and the right to think for your self. In his essay he explains how people feel in a way chained to this routine of how society has conformed mankind based on how they should act, speak, and even think to fit in to the rest of the crowd. Emerson describes how people feel like their thoughts or ideas aren't good enough if they don't match up to what others feel or follow the status quo. Yet, this essay shows us that we should trust our self, in the essay he says, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string....Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny." By saying this he explains how no one is any better than someone else. We are all equal, and if we let our natural thought, ideas, and way of thinking take over, we can all accomplish so many things. We need to allow our self to be and think by our self. We shouldn't allow others to seep into our minds and change us into something that's not naturally us.