Men Who Made America's Self-Made Man(historynewsnetwork.org)
19 points byPetiver4 days ago |2 comments
rimbo78921 minutes ago
Excellent essay

Few myths in our society are as dangerous and as anti-social as the “self made man”. No one is self made and all achievements are the result of groups of people working together.

hacker_yacker16 minutes ago
Anyone who claims to be self made is dishonest to themselves. "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main" -John Donne