Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
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
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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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.
Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
There is a Zulu phrase, ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’, which means ‘A person is a person through other persons.’
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
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Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.