Those of us who lived in the 1920’s can recall the evidences of the growing tendency to think of the self in superficial and oversimplified terms. In those days “self-expression” was supposed to be simply doing whatever popped into one’s head, as though the self were synonymous with any random impulse, and as though one’s decisions were to be made on the basis of a whim which might be a product of indigestion from a hurried lunch just as often as of one’s philosophy of life.
