Self is fundamentally creative, dynamic, forward-looking, energetic, powerful, engaged. The Collective looks for shadows of those qualities in the government as its source of survival.
The free individual certainly helps others, but he is against a culture that is so preoccupied with "raising up the lowest" that it nurtures a hatred of liberty. And this is a crux, because growing millions of people are all too eager to shed the last fragments of Self to join in a fantasy of "everybody gets everything."
The fantasy doesn't work. The melting down of all of humanity into a mystical goo is an illusion that can't stand the test of time. Eventually, a person falls out of that construct and remembers he must depend, to an alarming degree, on his own inner resources.
The free individual doesn't act in ways that limit the freedom of others.
Self-sufficiency is both an essence and outcome for the free individual.
The free individual discovers his way through imagination and creative power, because that is the answer to the question: what is freedom for?
Without exercising imagination and creative power, freedom withers and dies. It becomes an empty slogan. It becomes an empty stage.
We are told, in a thousand ways, that the free individual is the personification of greed and theft and crime. That is false.
The free individual imagines and creates on a scale that supersedes and ignores the Collective. His work naturally spills over and benefits others.
Advocates of the Collective falsely claim the free individual is cold and uncaring and remote and "without humanity." Meanwhile, their picture of a society based on need is a poisonous affectation; it is constructed because these advocates are walled off from their own power. Therefore, they substitute endless entitlement.
Their only nod of acknowledgment to the individual has been to propagandize him as an outsider, a potential danger, a lurking menace, a person waiting to be diagnosed with a mental disorder.
These days, it is the Group that is elevated. We must absorb the individual in the system so the Group is protected and safe.
Even accepting Mill's specious pronouncement that society should be organized on the basis of the greatest good for greatest number, the questions remains: what is the greatest good? Is it that which makes us, more and more, into a Group? Or is it that which liberates the individual to pursue his highest aspirations?
The greatest good liberates the individual, and then the door is open. Who will walk through it? Every person who has divested himself of the collective mindset.
The titanic myths that have been foisted on humanity and the titanic acceptance of those myths by humanity are all focused on one lie: the individual cannot stand on his own; he must subjugate himself to a system.
I don't care what form that higher system takes. It's a lie. It's all geared to promoting slavery. It's all geared to allowing the few to control the many.
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