3/ Primary charge against individualists from pov of collectivists is mirror-neuron-failure. Failure to enact admiration through imitation.
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4/ To the collectivist, the individualist is about small-minded selfishness that refuses to admire and emulate models of collectivist virtue
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5/ This is not true, the individualist may be incapable of admiration, contempt or imitation, but has a definite interest in other humans
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6/ I don't have role models, "people I want to be like" or people I really want to follow or lead. But I do have people I find intriguing.
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7/ So to commemorate Labor Day in my own individualist day, here is my unrakned list of 5 people I've found intriguing, and learned from.
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9/ Ada Lovelace, thinking person's Ayn Rand: makes my list for being actually interesting, not as a token woman.
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10/ Jorge Luis Borges, only refactorer-of-perception I tip my hat to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Lui
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11/ Bhima, most individualist character in the Mahabharata, under-rated relative to his brother Arjuna: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhima
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12/ Douglas Adams, caller-of-bullshit par excellence. Subtlety of his observation is still missed by most readers of HHGTTG
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