My daughter wants to be a taxidermist. She’s been thinking about this for a long time and that is her dream. She wants to build her own business and she has the guts, talent and brains to do it. She’s preparing a five year plan and wants to work for an hourly wage to support herself until the business takes off. Eventually she wants to take on apprentices.
But she’s getting a lot of pressure from “the family” to get at least a BA in “something”. I told her that a Associates in business wouldn’t hurt, but I’m not going to push her in this department. I honestly don’t think she’s on the wrong path.
Safety and security are great pressures.
Solzhenitsyn's argument is that the two kinds of courage are not separate but connected. A decline in the ability to control fear of pain leads to a decline in capability for self-defense and to "the dangerous tendency to form a herd," thus becoming subject to fashion. If we all think alike, we will all be safe without having to defend ourselves. This part of the Harvard speech appears to anticipate what we call political correctness.Have your daughter read the address.