Post-individualism

“Individuality can only be valuable when it is not individuality for its own sake but individuality for the human community.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

Our society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not be able to last – in a world where anthropogenic climate change is a constant and growing threat.

All this to say, being abandoned is not trivial. Not only having divorced parents, but being cut off from community, from culture, from all sources of support. Maybe it means more to you than you are letting on. Feel it, grieve it. Then turn that disappointment into determination. Nothing’s guaranteed, but we can take the pain and put every inch of

unfortunately, there are no rules in human nature that turn economic abundance into a sense of personal abundance