I've written that length about this idea (of course I have lol I can't shut up)
Individuals need to focus first on themselves to become strong enough to participate in a community or build one if there isn't one. Then they can focus on the people immediately around them. Once they have helped the people immediately around them, then that little molecule of people can coalesce amongst other molecules and we can build a community.
In my view you can't have a community without strong individuals. Otherwise what you're trying to do is like the.com bubble, you lose money on each one but you make up for it on volume.
In this way, ultimately you will have a very small number of people who are incredible who have saved themselves, save the people around them, saved the people in their community, and start having positive effects on the broader culture. A small number of those people end up going on to change the world.
But it all starts with a virtuous individual, and without that virtuous individual there can be no social groups, there can be no community, there can be no Nation.
There's only one way to inspire virtue, to be virtuous and live a blessed life thereby. People see the blessed life and want to have it for themselves, And so follow the example of the good man.
Many communitarian societies end up failing if they neglect personal virtue as the basis, because you simply can't make up the difference in volume. You need good people to have good communities. Perhaps certain individuals are lacking such as individuals with disabilities, but their inclusion is a sign of the overall virtue of the group and without the virtuous there will be no room for anyone who can't immediately contribute.
In some cases, sorry to say, there might not be a role for the weak if they're too weak. You can't build a kakocracy based on including people who lack all merit or virtue. For them you must give them the tools but if they can't be meritorious by any measure then they must be on their own. But it's key that virtue isn't just about success or physical strength but about moral virtue or self control -- things that can be cultivated.
Historically, groups with strong individuals that build strong communities can outcompete merely oppressive systems. It might not happen all the time, but virtue can edge out vice in the long term even if it doesn't look that way at first.
Individuals need to focus first on themselves to become strong enough to participate in a community or build one if there isn't one. Then they can focus on the people immediately around them. Once they have helped the people immediately around them, then that little molecule of people can coalesce amongst other molecules and we can build a community.
In my view you can't have a community without strong individuals. Otherwise what you're trying to do is like the.com bubble, you lose money on each one but you make up for it on volume.
In this way, ultimately you will have a very small number of people who are incredible who have saved themselves, save the people around them, saved the people in their community, and start having positive effects on the broader culture. A small number of those people end up going on to change the world.
But it all starts with a virtuous individual, and without that virtuous individual there can be no social groups, there can be no community, there can be no Nation.
There's only one way to inspire virtue, to be virtuous and live a blessed life thereby. People see the blessed life and want to have it for themselves, And so follow the example of the good man.
Many communitarian societies end up failing if they neglect personal virtue as the basis, because you simply can't make up the difference in volume. You need good people to have good communities. Perhaps certain individuals are lacking such as individuals with disabilities, but their inclusion is a sign of the overall virtue of the group and without the virtuous there will be no room for anyone who can't immediately contribute.
In some cases, sorry to say, there might not be a role for the weak if they're too weak. You can't build a kakocracy based on including people who lack all merit or virtue. For them you must give them the tools but if they can't be meritorious by any measure then they must be on their own. But it's key that virtue isn't just about success or physical strength but about moral virtue or self control -- things that can be cultivated.
Historically, groups with strong individuals that build strong communities can outcompete merely oppressive systems. It might not happen all the time, but virtue can edge out vice in the long term even if it doesn't look that way at first.
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