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Thread ID: 8269 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-07-19
2003-07-19 22:22 | User Profile
Should you really be "an individual?"
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2003-07-19 23:19 | User Profile
I believe in "individuality" within a collectivist context. I believe Dostoyevsky advocated this kind of belief, that individuality should be put to service for the common good. Theres a good quote from him I can't remember right now but I'll post when I do.
2003-07-20 04:01 | User Profile
Those poor rabid individualists. Raised by a family, living their entire lives in a society, making their living by working for a corporation (which happens to be a group of people acting as a collective to make money), joining the Libertarian Party, self-describing as an Objectivist (a group which shares common beliefs). If only they could just get away from all that Evil Collectivism...
2003-07-21 02:20 | User Profile
I've noticed three dictionary definitions of "individualism:"
The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant;
A social theory favoring the free actions of individuals;
Self-centered feeling or conduct; egoism.
It is the third definition which is killing us; the first two are generally beneficial. Perhaps it is the cynicism which comes as we get older, but I seem to find a direct generational relationship in the above definitions.
Jahel
2003-07-21 02:25 | User Profile
A fourth definition is needed to describe the Randroid type - those who believe that any group identity or loyalty is wrong and morally inferior and that society doesn't exist or matter.