By Bill Joslin
Duschene posed that a shift to, in his words, autonomy (rather than individualism – but colloquially it’s the same reference) is what allowed west to rise – individuals are more productive without necessarily working harder under those conditions.
The outcome was to raise all of humanity out of poverty, sickness and early death. In short Europe, by accidentally providing individual protections and access to markets, did what the Buddha couldn’t.
We have to stop fighting the left according to their definitions because it ends up us doing damages to ourselves.
Early forms of “diversity” specifically the abstraction of kinship sentiment into civic values, produced VARIATION in the polis (variations of those who held the same civic values) and law constrained variation from spinning off into diversity.
Just as equality before the law produces equity, the left blows this into a moral ideal and has us arguing against equality before the law.
They’ve taken the notion of tolerating arbitrary and irrelevant differences for civic life, which increases trust, franchise, and cooperation without destroying civic cohesion (a replacement for religion I might add) and blown this into an ideal and have us arguing against core mechanisms which have produced our rise.
We got here because we incrementally increases agency in the polis by ensuring autonomy (legal.protections access to.
markets) and we did so under the term “individualism” (which I might add is a pre-roman European value of which, without it, western “restlessness” would not have been preserved.)
Let’s stop fighting the enemy’s battles for them.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-17 18:20:00 UTC