Franklin helped create the "self-reliance" cult. Discuss self-reliance as found in Franklin's Autobiography

Answer 1

The essence of Franklin is that he was a civic-minded person. For Franklin, self-reliance and civic involvement were interwoven: "The good men do separately," he wrote, "is small compared with what they may do collectively."

Answer 2

in our modern socialist police states, the 'cult of the individual'
is gone. we are under mass 'hypnosis', there is mass transit,
mass media, mass education, mass production. people
are mass produced also. in 1968 at ucsb, i had the book
personality in social process, read it in the library. i stole
it, mailed it back years later anonymously. everything is
numbered these days. license number on cars, on drivers
license, on social security card. so if you feel like a number
its because you are a number. just one of six billion.
even, rugged individuals are mass produced today, by
public relations firms. we are all so interrelated in our house
of cards. like the proverbial tug of war, its one big rat race
in the rats maze, just to get the cheese of the day.
people, start your engines, rush hour is about 12 hours away
on the west coast. suggest you leave 3 hours early to
travel ten miles at 3 mph. allowing you ten minutes to
walk from your car to your job site. maybe, we should just
live at the job site, and dispense with having our own housing.
most of us are so busy working, we have no time for a home
anyway. cot by the desk is fine. with hotplate or if real
rich, a microwave oven. i'm not kidding. fed up with fads.