Posted on 11/05/2015 3:55:05 AM PST by smartyaz
While many divisions within our society are arbitrary or engineered, there is one division that represents perhaps the most pervasive and important conflict of our time; the division between collectivists and individualists.
Now, people who do not understand the nature of collectivism will often argue that individualism and collectivism are not mutually exclusive because individuals require groups in order to survive and thrive. However, a “group†is not necessarily a collective.
For some reason the core fundamental of collectivism – the use of psychological coercion or physical force to compel participation – goes right over the heads of many skeptics. A group does not have to be collectivist. Any group can and should be voluntary. Collectivism is NOT voluntary. Therefore, collectivism and individualism are indeed mutually exclusive. Collectivists and individualists cannot exist in the same space at the same time without eventually coming into conflict. There is simply no way around it.
From the position of the liberty minded (or the average Libertarian), collectivism is by far the inferior of the two philosophies. Collectivists often boast of the social and economic “harmonization†collectivism creates, as well as the mobilization of labor to “streamline progress.†The reality is that artificially rigged harmony is no harmony at all. If people are forced to homogenize and get along through fear, then peace has not truly been accomplished.
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To explain the difference between a collective and a cooperative, invoke the difference between the Borg and the Federation of Planets.
Kinda like the difference between communism and communalism:
Communalists come together in order to work cooperatively toward a common goal.
Most people under communism do those same things so their government does not murder them.
war is peace ...
Right on target.
Control Freaks vs. Freedom Lovers.
Individuals require groups in order to survive and thrive. Collectivists require individuals so they have someone to exploit. Without productive individuals, the parasites who make up the vast majority of collectivists would have no one to support them in the style to which they think they deserve to become accustomed.
Interesting article and very interesting comments at the source. Thanks for posting.
We the people are -
DEFUND anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life (socialist/totalitarian) collectives, foreign and domestic.
We did not get together to become economic slaves to the collective we call government.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
“—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Nov 5, 2015 $18,511,997,623,681+
Oct 31, 2015 $18,426,247 911,280+
WHOA! 85 BILLION+ in just over 6 days!!! (on what has been increasing by about 1 BILLION per day since I’ve been keeping track of the daily totals - about a month now).
To lifestyle to which they actually deserve to become accustomed involves lampposts.
The USA has about 26 million streetlights - enough lampposts not to need to reuse each one too many times.
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