You might want to read Nietzsche concerning the herd mentality.
"And why is this necessarly bad? What's so important about "individuality"
It's what defines each of us as opposed to being a member of an ant colony. There are no individuals in an ant colony.
ok. what do you recommend? Also, you've not answered the question.
It's what defines each of us as opposed to being a member of an ant colony. There are no individuals in an ant colony.
you're right. there are just ants, lol. But still, within the class a place exists; you'll have an identity and a home within that class -- assuming that those classes promote an ant colony mentality, which i don't think classes do. In fact, I think classes help promote individuality, more so than no classes would. On the other hand, the equality and classless society which seems the alternative to the current system, would do more harm and bring about the herd mentality far worse than the current society does (wasn't it Nietzsche who wrote against equality, saying it promoted, well, the herd mentality?)
Again, what would you propose as alternative to the class system? If classes destroy individuality, then what upholds and promotes it?