Thursday, 1 October 2015

A bit on individualism

I know , maybe there is nothing new in what I am going to tell. I'll go straight to the point.
  We are wasting our breath , talent, money blabbering about unity . No , I don't think being unite is bad but I do think being a individual is good. ( I am not ready to settle on OK )
  Here is what I think - when we were in primary stage , man was attacked by wild animals , was unable to improve his life due to lack of ...labour ( I was about to say organized effort . it would have misled my point ) man came together to get himself a better life by exchanging his efforts . soon man learned farming , building , invented fire .I think first society pretty much remembered their self interest.  I understand that at primary stage self sacrifice was eminent to keep society alive.
    The truth is , we need come together to live as an free individual. And I think it is the time everyone should accept that we've reached that stage long before.
Here is what Ayn Rand says in her book anthem-

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.

But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.

What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We."

When men accepted that worship, the structure of centuries collapsed about them, the structure whose every beam had come from the thought of some one man, each in his day down the ages, from the depth of some one spirit, such spirit as existed but for its own sake.
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