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It’s gonna be a very high debt world for a very long time. Individualism is going to get much harder, as you get fewer public services in return for higher taxes, which means more forced mutualism. TANLFL. Lots of free lunches piling up that will need to be paid for.
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It's almost as though all the "individualists" were actually dependent on more socially functional members of the society they claim doesn't exist to survive. Curious!
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The implication was so-called individualism is actually dependent on well-funded public services. I agree. The "sovereign individual" ideology is all about externalizing costs and pretending you aren't dependent on a strong, even authoritarian state to maintain the status quo.
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You could equally argue that all mutualism rests on public plenty born of individual creative enterprise. That’s the other kind of Ayn Rand preaching. It’s simpler to simply accept the two aspects of human nature. Partly they feed off each other, partly they’re just independent.
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Rand is Nietzsche for stupid people, Gilder is Bataille for stupid people. Read Nietzsche and Bataille (and some Hegel too) and the limitations of thinking through SV's favorite "theorists" becomes painfully obvious. See that false dichotomy, for example ;)
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