You should have told me upfront. I wouldn't have wasted my time.
I think the threat of a false and twisted idea of altruism which you must be referring to has burgeoned and begun to fade in the 20th Century.
Hey, pay attention! YOUR national debt is nearly 7 trillion dollars! YOUR nation is bankrupt trying to pay for the socialist morass created by the altruistic philosophy. Do you have any idea what YOUR share of this insanity is? 90% of the states in this nation are dead broke trying to fund this insanity. Get a clue. It is a failed paradigm.
I think a greater threat is a weird combination of false and superficial ideas of personal liberty and security.
This is an irrational statement, not derived from reality.
The roots that make this apparently conflicted set of desires exhalted as "uberprinciples" so weird are roots fed by such notions as man being merely a complex animal (a very unnatural concoction) and that private behavior has no universal consequences.
This is an even more irrational statement (if there can even be such a thing) based upon no perceivable provable concept.
But there are answers to the bitterly cold, modern problems that we have had, if we would let our opaque and hardened shells be removed. There is light and there is warmth.
Oh, how nice and touchy feelie. How psycho babble fuzzy! Thanks for demonstrating exactly what I was saying about logic being abandoned for emotional mush. bye