Individualism

What exactly are the serious social problems that trouble us today? Well, basically people hate each other. When kids explode and shoot their classmates, you have a social problem. Also…

Why it’s still something that should be celebrated and encouraged, not mocked and dismissed — Every time I read an article along the lines of this one, blasting the notion of “rugged individualism” as some kind of fallacy and affront to human dignity, I immediately sense a clenching of my jaws and a hint of bile rising in my throat, spurred on by a mixture…

At it’s root, a religion is more like a political group, and spirituality is the experience of an individual. — Religions Are Organizations, Spirituality Is Personal When a group identity is formed around some set of spiritual practices, a religious organization is born. If you thought the personal ego was dangerous, consider the group-ego. Like the personal ego, the group-ego is an idea, a meme, which strives to continue existing and multiply itself, sometimes at the…

It’s Way Past Time for the Lone American Male with a Gun to Ride Off Into the Sunset. The nauseating spectacle of a culture destroying itself to feed the greed of a particular industry, in this case, the unholy American alliance of gun manufacturers, their spokespersons at the NRA, and…

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual “ — Marie Curie — A bear eats bellyful of grubs,berries, carrion, lucky honey drips, A big glut followed by a deposit of crap with no digestible value. So, what kind of indulgences do you ingest that after incubation To deposit some “suckering for the suckers” as unpalatable stuff? Remember, the first inputs begin the…