Yea... ok :rolleyes:
I don't believe in "God" as most people, but that is a seperate issue.
ComradeRed said: Individualism is a pseudo-idea created by man during the bourgeois revolutions (c.1700), and declared that if you supported the King(God save the King!) you would be a collectivist. I say:
So, you think that because someone came up with a label, to attach to a natural psychological process, that is when it was created? This is truly bizarre, and I will need more explanation to understand how you can consider this rational, logical thought. So you are saying the "concept" of individualism, only exists because a "man" (nice reference by the way) declared it to be known as individualism?
ComradeRed said: But the fact of the matter is that mankind was set up naturally as a collective society when agriculture was discovered. Everyone had to work as hard as they could to survive! And they had to pool their food they reaped! Or else they would have died, and where would we be now??? I say:
Well, you are right and wrong here, and make a HUGE presumption which is INCORRECT. Not all societies became agricultural, and not all agricultural societies were collectivist. I would advise you to read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I am sure of the book name, not quite of the author name. He covers most of what you are talking about in the most current, unfettered, unbiased form I have ever seen. Check it out.