Re:Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse...
by tartoran on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:51AM
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You’re talking about a different type of effect where corporations killed all the small players and that’s very true but has nothing to do with the ideological individualism, at least not directly but could as well indirectly but let’s be clear what we’re discussing and if they’re intertwined let’s make that explicit. Individualism discussed here leads people to lonelinese and communities to vanish around them..
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Re:Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse...
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:48PM
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The issue with the comment I replied to is that it takes individualism to mean something like isolation, which is a straw man when that position has no advocates.
Individualism is something more like individual autonomy, which is in no way incompatible with individuals entering into voluntary associations with other members of the community -- as long as no one is forcing them to. But that's the thing we've destroyed through regulatory overhead and vertically integrated monopolies which force people into associations with entities they'd prefer not to be associated with and deprive them of their autonomy.