The famous first video interview between Eric Sevareid and Eric Hoffer, was what I looked at this evening. Hoffer is such a concise, aphoristic writer, but he is a bombastic, gesticulating, extroverted, bombastic, passion, outspoken bear in person.
That he is so filled with contradictions may be a seminal influence on his proto-moderate thinking.
He is an actualizing individualist and is quoted in this video as saying because he is acquainted with himsef, he knows the whole world. All the good and all the bad every done, and all the greatness and pettiness that others humans can do, Hoffer was capable of. That is how he came to know humanity, by knowing himself first and foremost.
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