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Originally Posted by kinn
individualism is fascism, if i say that loud enough on this board or any other i'll get shouted down and ripped apart but its true.
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I broadly agree with your other points but I entirely agree with this. I struggle to articulate it without defaulting to socialist, Marxist or Christian terms, but there's a very definite threat that society
per se is continually negated by the chimera of the individual. Removing the individual from dialogue is near impossible now, which is a very modern (capitalist) invention. To me the individual is the person who doesn't accept responsibility, who'll say it's not him contributing to global warming or that one packet of rice isn't killing small brown people or will be sat on the internet wanking while Rome burns. But I can't really define my point except in negative terms (which is precisely the position of the individual - the unitary event dislocated or subtracted from the social fabric).