Post-individualism
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Post-individualism
unfortunately, there are no rules in human nature that turn economic abundance into a sense of personal abundance
Paul Millerd • The Individualism Myth | #241
Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.
Justin D. Henderson • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout
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?
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
The antithesis is that collectivist coordination is its own reward; that we “formation fly” because we simply like mutuality and interdependence more than isolation and independence, and any collectivizable rewards for doing so are simply gravy.
Venkatesh Rao • Narrative Slipstream Effects
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
Of course families have fallen apart in every generation. But even a few decades ago children from broken homes had communities, they had neighbourhoods. Now our families fall apart and there is nothing, nobody, to catch us. We live far from extended family. We are more estranged than ever. And I can’t get across how little familiarity Gen Z has
... See moreFreya India • The Age of Abandonment
Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals