Do the contours of American society — that emphasis on individualism, that spreading out with impunity over a vast, sometimes outsized landscape — encourage isolation and alienation? [More]
Come, let’s all be comrades and join the communist hive!
And if that doesn’t work, we’ll beat harder on the “Individuals are racists” drum.
This comes from the same interests desperate to reinstitute the lie that the Second Amendment refers exclusively to a “collective right.”
The falsehood of this piece is that it’s an “either/or” dichotomy, and that champions of individual liberty don’t have families, friends, tribes, networks, or belong to larger groups that share their values. They know that love is more than “feelings,” it is behaviors, including boundless self-sacrifice requiring a lot more than mere delayed gratification. In fact, the “loners” who are psychopathic mass shooters exhibit the most deadly traits of genocidal collectivists, right down to denying individual due process to their victims.
There are no group passes and participation trophies for salvation, whether you’re talking literal or metaphorical. It always comes down to personal accountability and consequences for individual choices.
