The Demiurge's Lost Socks
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"Individualism is a recently coined expression prompted by a new idea, for our forefathers knew only of egoism.
"Egoism is an ardent and excessive love of oneself which leads man to relate everything back to himself and to prefer himself above everything."
"Individualism is a calm and considered feeling which persuades each citizen to cut himself off from his fellows and to withdraw into the circle of his family and friends in such a way that he thus creates a small group of his own and willingly abandons society at large to its own devices. Egoism springs from blind instinct; individualism from wrong-headed thinking rather than from depraved feelings. It originates as much from defects of intelligence as from mistakes of the heart."
"Egoism blights the seeds of every virtue; individualism at first dries up the only source of public virtue. In the longer term it attacks and destroys all the others and will finally merge with egoism."
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I was reading a book called The Case Against the Modern World and these quotes stuck out at me. Reading pages and pages of internet postings as well as certain books and reading material I've read did cause me to have an almost sociopathic egoism in the past. I'm not alone in this; many evil deeds have been done by people who imbibe psychotic humor as people struggle to, using the internet, throw one another under the bus to fulfill the needs of their hearts. I'm hoping more learned people can chime in and turn this into a pleasurable and profitable discussion.
"Egoism is an ardent and excessive love of oneself which leads man to relate everything back to himself and to prefer himself above everything."
"Individualism is a calm and considered feeling which persuades each citizen to cut himself off from his fellows and to withdraw into the circle of his family and friends in such a way that he thus creates a small group of his own and willingly abandons society at large to its own devices. Egoism springs from blind instinct; individualism from wrong-headed thinking rather than from depraved feelings. It originates as much from defects of intelligence as from mistakes of the heart."
"Egoism blights the seeds of every virtue; individualism at first dries up the only source of public virtue. In the longer term it attacks and destroys all the others and will finally merge with egoism."
___________________________
I was reading a book called The Case Against the Modern World and these quotes stuck out at me. Reading pages and pages of internet postings as well as certain books and reading material I've read did cause me to have an almost sociopathic egoism in the past. I'm not alone in this; many evil deeds have been done by people who imbibe psychotic humor as people struggle to, using the internet, throw one another under the bus to fulfill the needs of their hearts. I'm hoping more learned people can chime in and turn this into a pleasurable and profitable discussion.