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Yavin4

(35,421 posts) Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:54 PM Feb 2021

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

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The Problem With Hyper-Individualism (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2021 OP

Humans built civilization for a reason. It's good. We like it. Laelth Feb 2021 #1

Those who preach the loudest against collectivism are the same ones that benefit from it. Yavin4 Feb 2021 #2

The fact that we can work together... paleotn Feb 2021 #3

Precisely. n/t Laelth Feb 2021 #4

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

1. Humans built civilization for a reason. It's good. We like it.

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:19 PM

Feb 2021

Hyperindividualism is stupid. Dogs, elephants, walruses, meerkats, bison, and pretty much every herd/pack animal on the planet is smart enough to know that none of us can survive for long without strong social bonds and interconnectedness.

-Laelth

Yavin4

(35,421 posts)

2. Those who preach the loudest against collectivism are the same ones that benefit from it.

Reply to Laelth (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:31 PM

Feb 2021

How many times has an Ivy League graduate lectured you about the evils of collectivism yet brags about his/her Harvard/Yale/Princeton degrees? Is being a member of the Ivy League just a form of collectivism?

paleotn

(17,881 posts)

3. The fact that we can work together...

Reply to Laelth (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 19, 2021, 09:27 PM

Feb 2021

in groups larger than immediate family is one of the reasons there's 7 billion of us. If not for that, we'd still be hunting and gathering like Neanderthals. If we weren't already extinct.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

4. Precisely. n/t

Reply to paleotn (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 19, 2021, 09:51 PM

Feb 2021

-Laelth

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