Solidarity and Self-Reliance

Finally Crawford admits that even when we are self-reliant we are not autonomous. We depend on others for approval and discernment to provide a standard. We can excel above that standard, but we are not defining what is excellent. This is humbling when so often I think we believe that if we just go off and work on our own we will end up doing something new that makes us stand out as an individual, but that can only happen when we have a standard to work up against. Others have to have gone before us to make our work worth something in this world. We can not be completely self-reliant and that is an important lesson to learn.