{"id":16709,"date":"2015-05-31T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=16709"},"modified":"2020-12-05T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:01:33","slug":"mill-on-eccentricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/mill-on-eccentricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill on Eccentricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mill, John Stuart (2012-03-01). On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions) (p. 56). Dover Publications. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when &#8230; <a title=\"Mill on Eccentricity\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/mill-on-eccentricity\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mill on Eccentricity\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,39,14,15,42],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-16709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-culture","category-history","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-psychology","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-4lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16842,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/best-books-on-free-speech\/","url_meta":{"origin":16709,"position":0},"title":"Best books on Free Speech","author":"Limbic","date":"October 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are my picks for the 4 best books on Free Speech (old and new) for anyone new to the topic. 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