Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
Hyper-individualism rests upon an emancipation story. The heroic self breaks free from the stifling chains of society. The self stands on its own two feet, determines its own destiny, secures its own individual rights. Hyper-individualism defines freedom as absence from restraint. In this way, hyper-individualism gradually undermines any connection... See more
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
unfortunately, there are no rules in human nature that turn economic abundance into a sense of personal abundance
Paul Millerd • The Individualism Myth | #241
