Erin’s Reviews > Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life – From Harold's Journey to Self-Reliance, Hope, and Fulfillment > Status Update

“Self-determination oxygenates the American spirit,” but is “ often perverted in the United States, twisted into a kind of individualism that defies the vital importance of community life and interdependence. … When people refuse to wear masks during a pandemic, putting others at risk for the sake of their right to govern their behavior, they are participating in the ugly side of self-determination.”

“In many ways we live today in the world that Johnson and others of his time were worried about. Many thinkers back then were concerned about the commodification of everything,including ourselves, all of it available for the right price.”