“To think independently of other human beings is impossible, and if it were possible, it would be undesirable.”

In these shelter-in-place times, this quote by Alan Jacobs from his book How to Think jumped out at me: “To think independently of other human beings is impossible, and if it were possible it would be undesirable. Thinking is necessarily, thoroughly, and wonderfully social. Everything you think is a response to what someone else has thought and said. And when people commend someone for “thinking for herself” they usually mean “ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more...