Ralph Waldo Emerson's Influence On Society

The relationship between a person and society is that society forms people by creating norms and encouraging staying normal. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”, he stated that people need to be individuals and put themselves before others. Although, society has ridiculed different opinions thus keeping men from being themselves. The two major barriers to self-reliance are society and conformity. He believes that as the future progresses, things, ideas get distorted. Inside of every man hides a unique view and opinion, but he is afraid to outspoken in fear of rejection and ridicule. Emerson’s outline for “Self-Reliance” result in a weaker society.
Following Emerson’s outline for self-reliance result in a weaker society, because it ignores one’s advantage and makes people being a follower. One will never find out
People feel frightened to deal out their thought, and slowly began to lose their direction. They don't believe in themselves, they must solicit the opinions of others before making a decision. They were afraid of what someone else might think of them so they must get support from other people before speaking out an idea. In the Ralph Emerson's essay, Self- Reliance, he mentions, “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its member.”(Page 2). The society is not allowing a person to have their own personal assertions which causing people not to have confidence to speak. If a man being not assertive, he would live inside himself. He will never know how to express his feeling. People being in a competitive society are facing challenges in life, and withstanding a greater pressure to survive. So if someone loss of confidence on the way to success, then life will be enveloped in the shadow of failure and life will end up with nothing. The society is getting inferior because the society is out of talent