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Why is individualism a bad thing? (hexbear.net)

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Everytime I here individualism brought up by someone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, it gets talked about as if it's categorically bad and wrong. Why is that?

This goes against everything I've learned in the states, where we consider individualism a necessary part of being a responsible and moral person, whereas collectivism strips us of our humanity and turns us into subhuman insectoid creatures incapable of thought.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

The two negative uses of the term here:

When liberals offer solutions they're often about placing "personal responsibility" on individuals to fix fundamentally systematic problems they can never fix. For example, plastic recycling. They offer an individualistic solution that's really meant to pass the buck on litter and pollution from producers (owner class) to consumers (more working class).
The romantic mythology of men as islands etc etc. False ideas of independence and strength as a single person or family that's basically self-sufficient. Turns out, we live in a society. But the individualistic myth lives on and tells people that being a selfish asshole is good in and of itself.