Of course Emerson is a visionary. A man can be whatever he wants to be in the world. “Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. Whatever he wants to be and he can be. You can have your own thoughts and opinions without having to rely on other people to tell you that those …show more content…
He gets his opinions from the minds of others. Just like a son follows in the footsteps of loving his dad's favorite sports team, a delegated thinker follows what other people tell him to think. “...he tends to become a mere thinker, or , still worse the parrot of other men’s thinking.” All of his opinions are invalid because he only believes in what society tells him to believe. He gets his beliefs from the minds of others. Now, the man that has his own opinions, sticks to his own judgement, and doesn’t crumble when someone states an ad hominem argument against him, is the the “man thinking.” This man does not get ideas from other people. He generates his own ideas and can stand with them and can argue them. He is the man thinking. He is the man that will be able to stick to his