Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.
we grew up and got it drilled into us that the problem is dependence. Don’t be needy.
Contribute your skills to an existing effort – make it possible. Build the website, raise the funds, recruit the talent, plan the events. As Bill McKibben puts it, “Faced with the kind of crises that we face, the most important thing that an individual can do is to not always be an individual.” Move from I to we .
suffering is conceptualized in ways that protect the current economy from criticism—namely, as rooted in individual rather than social causes, which means we must favor self over social reform

It does not matter what comfort and convenience we have if we think love is dead. Who cares what cool technologies we have, if the closest thing we’ve got to community is an online forum?
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