Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
While left and right seem totally polarized, they share one thing: the worship of the self.
Freddie deBoer • No One Is Kenough
Metalabel
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You are not part of the human race, you are the result of it.
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
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.