individualism

* More individualism. Being a friend means sharing more and means relying on other more.

This fantasy of American individualism is killing us. We need to grow up and learn how to share—and this is the worst part: as we once did.

Well, the anarchy could have been forgiven, but individualism? Put him up against the wall!

It is individualism taken too far, beyond where the idea of individualism is meaningful. Human beings need social conditioning as much as they need food and drink to survive.

America has a culture of individualism, problem solving, and allowing those who solve problems to keep the spoils of their market victories.

It's interesting when there is a flurry of articles making coordinated attacks upon the very idea of creative individualism. Often when things are so coordinated there is a PR firm behind it.

Avoid individualism but try to give everyone space in which to make their own identifiable contribution. I would normally start projects, then suggest that group members worked =on them, and when the left, they retained the "guru-ship" of the project.

We don't have to give up our sense of individualism and the respect for personal growth and contribution; we just need to back it up with a recognition of the surrounding factors that are extremely real and highly influential on all our lives. I know we would be a better society if we did.

It is surprising given the rhetoric about how freedom, individualism, respect for human rights and liberty. Those are always touted as foundational principles.

Even in the freest countries there has still been a rampant diminution of personal responsibility and individualism in preference to state control, regulation, legal expansionism, and so on. The war on drugs is a big part of that.

I somehow doubt that sabotaging the kid's education would reduce his anarchism and individualism.

Privacy was irrelevant because individualism was irrelevant. Even extending into bathroom habits the communist goal was to make people cogs.

I'd love to know the philosophical underpinnings of this odd combination of individualism and collectivism. I do hope it's something more interesting than simply "the universe should make my chosen lifestyle easier!"

Also: > parents providing the other half from what they saved and > American individualism works are contrary. You didn't do anything on your own to get the money your parents provided. This is not individualism, you relied on your existing social networks to meet your financial needs.

It has become politically correct to emphasize collaboration and teamwork above individualism. I'm not arguing for either.

Now, before the usual tropes about the software industry's meritocracy and rugged individualism lead everyone to laugh at the idea of a labor movement for software engineers, let's all just take a moment and have a look at what happened to the Hollywood visual effects industry. It is one of the very few parts of the movie production process that is not unionized.

Favouring conservative taxation in favour of purported "individualism" is not only selfish, but highly inefficient. Charities and government subsidies do not fill the voids required by collective resource allocation.

The culture in open source is a kind of loose-knit collective individualism, which means leadership in open source looks a lot like gardening: your main function is to tend the soil and stop the plants from strangling each other. But design necessarily requires autocratic leadership - a person or persons whose vision for the product subsumes the priorities of any individual working on it.

I can see no principal, within the framework of free markets and individualism, which leads to condemnation of ever more automated and faster trading, more complex instruments and more dependence of finance. The best moral principal, I can think of, which opposes the current state of affairs, is the one uttered by Martin Sheen's character in the movie Wallstreet: "Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others."

The vice of modern democracy is to promote excessive individualism, that is, a preoccupation with one's private life and family, and an unwillingness to engage in public affairs. Americans combated this tendency towards excessive individualism by their propensity for voluntary association, which led them to form groups both trivial and important for all aspects of their lives.