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  • trojanbark@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Chardolf Kirkler
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    1 day ago

    I agree with you, but I also acknowledge that the less severe it is, the easier it is to guide someone out of it. My now best friend was quite a racist, sexist, homophobic piece of shit when he was a teenager, but learned to move past all of that and is an ardent activist against all types of prejudice now. He understands what our ancestors knew, that simply feeling bad about past actions and beliefs isn’t enough, that one should do what they can to make up for them.

  • trojanbark@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red.
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    1 day ago

    Civilization began when we stopped being hunter gatherers and started being sedentary with agriculture. Those structures you’re referring to were being built thousands of years after civilization began. One could argue it goes even deeper; when we stopped being immediate-return hunter gatherers and switched to delayed-return hunter gatherers, then the concept of elites began, which is the root of individualism, the cancer that led to the beginning of civilization.

    Your pizza story is irrelevant because in my worldview things like money and material wealth and items that are not collectively owned and shared would not exist; now there would be personal possessions to help in tasks like hunting or maybe ornamentation, but anything that is for the good of the group would be shared. In traditional hunter-gatherer societies, rather than relying on a moneyed economy or barter economy, they usually had what is called a gift economy. In this, your relationship with others is one of the most important things, and contributes to the cohesion of the group. It builds trust. One of the ways to do this is to always give each other gifts.

  • trojanbark@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red.
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    2 days ago

    The collective is made up of individuals.

    This doesn’t negate the fact that I value the good of the collective over the good of an individual. Individualism is what led to civilization which is what led to the destruction of our planet and our separation from it. Individualism is the cancer that must be eradicated.

    The rights of individuals is more important than any nation.

    To me this is like saying “dog poop tastes better than cat poop.” Nations should not exist and individualism should not exist.

    Now just to be clear, I am a huge fan of individuality, just not individualism.