Romantics and individuals from the Age of Reason would agree with him: each of these groups pushed that an individual should do what he feels is right over what his society wants him to do. Romantics support this concept in its entirety; individuals from the Age of Reason supported the concepts of natural laws, including the freedom of speech, so …show more content…
When Henry stood in front of the Virginian Congress and gave his speech, he specifically stated that “This is no time for ceremony.” He was presenting the unpopular opinion and he knew it, but he felt that his idea was better than the collective’s, so he fought for it anyway.
Thomas Paine also tried to push the people of the United States to go to war with Britain in this time. In his writing “American Crisis,” the very first sentence says that “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Instead of appealing to every person at once by saying their neighbors would be doing it or using any other number of propaganda techniques, Paine attempts to reach the mind of each and every individual, which shows where he believes true power lies.
Two more groups would probably force Sir Mix-a-Lot to stop supporting individuals over society. Realists believe in the power of the collective over the power of the individual, and Puritans only ever did anything in the name of God, so the opinions of individuals mattered very little to …show more content…
Having abandoned the concept of an ideal person, they didn 't think any one person could be more impactful than all of society as a whole, or, for that matter, even have an impact at all, so they don’t think individuals should even try. The best example of this occurs in “Outcasts of Poker Flat,” where none of the main characters have any control over what happens. Meanwhile, in the beginning of the story, a new social trend was actually what forced them to leave the town and sent them to their deaths. The townspeople wanted to clean up the area, so they simply removed everyone who didn’t fit in with what they