Everytime I here individualism brought up by someone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, it gets talked about as if it’s categorically bad and wrong. Why is that?

This goes against everything I’ve learned in the states, where we consider individualism a necessary part of being a responsible and moral person, whereas collectivism strips us of our humanity and turns us into subhuman insectoid creatures incapable of thought.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m going to copy a comment I posted a couple of weeks ago:

    I hate the “collectivist” vs “individualist” framing, it’s so loaded towards “individualism” when what people usually mean is atomization, meanwhile us so-called collectivists don’t as the myth goes, believe in submitting one’s individual interests to the Greater Good of The Collective, we believe that most people have most of their interests in common with other people and should work together to pursue those interests rather than against each other. Because of that, I prefer the framing that is loaded the other way of “pro-social” vs “anti-social”. The people you describe are significantly anti-social and disliking individual corporations has no bearing on that.