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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

The teaching which I received was genuinely democratic in one way. It was not so democratic in another. I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also, consciously or unconsciously, been taught that socially and industrially pretty much the whole duty of the man lay in thus making the best of himself; that he should be honest in his dealings with others and charitable in the old-fashioned way to the unfortunate; but that it was no part of his business to join with others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #collective #commoncause #commoninterest #community #exploitation #individualism #mutualresponsibility #mutualsupport #progress #reform #respect #selfcenteredness #selfmade #selfishness

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

'The Sovereign Individual' - The winner-takes-all

"Across its 400 pages, The Sovereign Individual celebrates the instincts of our impossibly wealthy technofeudal overlords to accumulate, hoard and insulate themselves from the messier demands of mass democracy...This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue."
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https://theconversation.com/this-libertarian-manifesto-loved-by-peter-thiel-urges-a-cognitive-elite-to-see-selfishness-as-a-virtue-263742
#society #civility #individualism #PublicSphere #surveillance #TechIndustry #fortresses #violence #VibeShift #SocialDarwinism #book

Manosphere and individualism are the products of neoliberalism, which promotes competition, inequality and violence. Read more https://theconversation.com/hyper-individualistic-and-focused-on-worth-the-manosphere-is-a-product-of-neoliberalism-254339

#manosphere #individualism #wellnessindustry #neoliberalism #liberalism #violence #loneliness #capitalism #competition #meritocracy #bad #menissues #violenceagainstwomen #inequality #equality #socioeconomics #politics #humans #neoliberal #liberal #individualistic #violentmen #respect #dignity #society #societalissues #societal #humanbehaviour

Great reading!

Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth ,
a.k.a.

"How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment"

https://medium.com/team-human/self-actualization-and-the-myth-of-personal-growth-67c12e5310f3

#egoism #relativism #consumerism #nichilism #flatness #harmony #senseMaking #meaning #capitalism #individualism #newAge #socialJustice

This may seriously be one BIG problem of our age:

"Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny"

https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

#obesity #egoism #individualism #nichilism #meGeneration #anxiety #sex #sexuality #education #millennials #zoomers #boomers

Is Andrew Tate a product of individualism? - Daily Friend
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2023/01/11/is-andrew-tate-a-product-of-individualism/

(My latest column, defending John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, from a scurrilous smear.)

#AndrewTate #JohnStuartMill #JSMill #HarrietTaylorMill #Individualism #Liberalism