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Franklin’s autobiography becomes the seed of an American self-help tradition: the belief that one can and must improve status through method, hard work, and discipline.
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Franklin
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Franklin’s model of becoming rich depends not only on honesty and frugality but on appearing industrious, simple, Calvinist, and reputation-worthy.
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Franklin’s simple living and constant achievement are reinterpreted as symptoms of middle-class anxiety: accumulation becomes the only defense against falling back into poverty.
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"...the average American at this stage in history. Okay? Now, Benjamin Franklin, by writing his memoir, he starts a new fad in America that..."
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"...right, so let's read certain passages from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to gain insight into the American psychology. From the bosom of poverty..."
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"Okay? So not only is he going to tell you how to become rich, but he will teach you how to become rich. So..."
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"And then he will compare and contrast. His work with that of the original work. And then he will make adjustments and refinements to..."
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"And in order to insure my credit. And character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be really industrious and frugal, but..."
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"That if you do work hard, if you are honest, and if you save a lot of money, then it's possible for you to..."
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"...you think about it we discussed the the memoir of Benjamin Franklin right?"
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"Well why is he focused on such a simple living? Why does he constantly want to achieve? It's because of the anxiety of being..."
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"...like awe and wonder, resonance, sure. Resonance. Okay. Um, so Benjamin Franklin, oh sorry, not Benjamin Franklin, Walter Benjamin, would have a phrase for..."
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"...saying is that freemasons were critical in america's founding and benjamin franklin uh was a freemason alexander hamilton uh mother was jewish so he..."
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"okay um first of all lincoln franklin and hamilton were not english assets they were not english spies but they'd have contacts in the..."
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"...Zionists. I did not hear that. Hope Johnson incidents like the Franklin scandal and the McMartin School incident seemed to lend credence that there..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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