re: #279 Sol Berdinowitz

Until we learn to hatch out fully-formed adults who can be fitted with an education implant and sent out to realize their full potential as fully free and independent individuals, we will continue to be collective beings living in a collective society to some degree.

Why is this made to seem so darned EEBIL?

I’m not quite sure I understand your statement. We are, and always will be, a collective of individual beings, beginning from the moment we are born, living in a family, because we live among others in a world of others. If you want to be an “individual” the way some are describing it these days, go live as a hermit. Those who totally ignore the collective nature of society and don’t cooperate with it aren’t called “sociopaths” for no reason, and this concentration on “individualism” has done little more than increase the number of narcissists we see today.

“Individualism” has limits, as many have found out the hard way.