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Is our great contemporary fear anonymity?

If the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmodernism is it visibility?  So asked the writer of a thought-provoking article on our obsession with connectivity.

Is this what our contemporary selves really want?  To be recognised, to be connected, to be visible, if not to the millions via, say, the X Factor, then at least to the hundreds, via Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn?

The ‘disease to please’ is apparently a dangerous condition that can lead to terrible suffering and even suicide, claimed a leading commentator.

You know when you lean back too far in your chair and almost fall backwards but save yourself at the last second? ...I feel like that all day - Stephen Wright

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop - Rumi

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you - Laozi

The scale of the success you need is determined by the intensity of your self-hatred - Alain de Botton, http://twitter.com/alaindebotton

Life is a rainbow which also includes black - Yevgeny Yevtushenko

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced - Vincent Van Gogh