Santigold's track "Disparate Youth" focuses on the transcendentalist theme of individualism. She explains how she has to overcome the obstacles to being individual and defining oneself. The lines "So let them say we can't do better, lay out the rules that we can't break, they wanna sit and watch you wither" pair very well with the quote " Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" from Ralph Emerson's Self Reliance. Santigold is telling how the people around us extinguish individualism while Emerson explains how you need to ignore them and be yourself.
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