Post-individualism

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.

While left and right seem totally polarized, they share one thing: the worship of the self.

Freddie deBoer • No One Is Kenough

rob hardy

Our identity, our meaning, our purpose, as humans, was always our ties and obligations to others, and now we are trying to do it all alone, trying to figure out who we are alone, and we’re nobody alone, no wonder we’re confused. And for many of us life has become about trying to heal or hide this thing, shoving it down, this basic human need to