@amerika I love your article about scientific consensus being a load of crap, I just read it.
One thing I'd like clarification on for the remedial kids in the class like me, what exactly do you mean by "individualism"? It seems to me that your conclusion is saying something that makes intuitive sense, but logically it doesn't quite jive, but I'm thinking it might be because of a subtly different definition of individualism than I'm going by, maybe something more expansive, that helps us get from individualism to collectivism.
One thing I'd like clarification on for the remedial kids in the class like me, what exactly do you mean by "individualism"? It seems to me that your conclusion is saying something that makes intuitive sense, but logically it doesn't quite jive, but I'm thinking it might be because of a subtly different definition of individualism than I'm going by, maybe something more expansive, that helps us get from individualism to collectivism.
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Thank you for reading. Additionally, this is useful feedback. It's hard to tell where people might have questions.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/leftism-egalitarianism-individualism/
Individualism is me-first-before-reality, a type of thinking that rationalizes individual desires as social goods, parallel to control which bans certain methods "for the social good" but in order to shape thinking. In both cases, the thought process is modified instead of reality itself.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/hubris/
The Greeks knew it by a different name: essentially, arrogance outside of hierarchy. They had no problem with regular arrogance. "Know your place" captures about a tenth of the meaning they had to the term; reverence for nature and purpose, as well as recognition of competence and the hierarchy it creates, was the other nine-tenths.
I cover it from an Xoid angle here:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/reprobates/
A big point is that what conservatives call "collectivism" is in fact just groups of individualists rationalizing their desires as good for the mythical collective:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/collectivism-is-individualism/
This explains Communism, Democrats, and HOAs quite handily.
A bit on the psychology:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/transcending-individualism/
What we need instead is a sense of purpose through reality that requires considering all parts of any situation:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/individualism-versus-holism/
Individualists love novelty and chaos:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/reality-beneath-the-skin/
And a Platonic (not neoplatonic!) view:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/individualism-begins-the-civilization-death-process/
Unfortunately, the article I want to link here has not yet published, but it ties some of this stuff together and runs sometime next month.
Thank you for reading. Additionally, this is useful feedback. It's hard to tell where people might have questions.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/leftism-egalitarianism-individualism/
Individualism is me-first-before-reality, a type of thinking that rationalizes individual desires as social goods, parallel to control which bans certain methods "for the social good" but in order to shape thinking. In both cases, the thought process is modified instead of reality itself.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/hubris/
The Greeks knew it by a different name: essentially, arrogance outside of hierarchy. They had no problem with regular arrogance. "Know your place" captures about a tenth of the meaning they had to the term; reverence for nature and purpose, as well as recognition of competence and the hierarchy it creates, was the other nine-tenths.
I cover it from an Xoid angle here:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/reprobates/
A big point is that what conservatives call "collectivism" is in fact just groups of individualists rationalizing their desires as good for the mythical collective:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/collectivism-is-individualism/
This explains Communism, Democrats, and HOAs quite handily.
A bit on the psychology:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/transcending-individualism/
What we need instead is a sense of purpose through reality that requires considering all parts of any situation:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/individualism-versus-holism/
Individualists love novelty and chaos:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/reality-beneath-the-skin/
And a Platonic (not neoplatonic!) view:
https://www.amerika.org/politics/individualism-begins-the-civilization-death-process/
Unfortunately, the article I want to link here has not yet published, but it ties some of this stuff together and runs sometime next month.