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For some, American identity is based on red-blooded capitalist enterprise and rugged individualism, unhindered by excessive government regulation in the pursuit of material happiness.
Traditionalists also argue that meritocracy implies individualism, and that too much
individualism
and too little social solidarity and responsibility are negative features of western society.
Collectivism, not individualism, was the contemporary creed, and the nation-state was its solid foundation.
Capitalism, democracy, individualism, gender equality, and secularism are Western notions that have been adopted in Asia.
Since then, the Orthodox Church (in Russian, Pravoslavie, literally the “right worship”) has been considered the only correct form of Christianity in Russia, with other denominations dismissed for their support of
individualism
and insufficient reverence of the human soul.
It is not surprising that the triumph of the PC seemed to be accompanied by a revival of the nineteenth-century vision of classical liberalism and
individualism.
The initial disappointment about electronic productivity was thus a vivid demonstration of the limits of classical
individualism.
By leaving the rhetoric of "community" only to the extremes of right and left, by abandoning it to people with nothing positive to say, people who loath all aspects of liberal individualism, both liberalism and democracy are placed at risk.
During the right-wing ascendancy of the past 20 years, the pendulum of politics swung too far towards
individualism
and ignored the capacity of collective action, regulated or organised by governments, to achieve what individuals could not do.
By replacing
individualism
with collectivism, it could push global politics in a profoundly illiberal direction.
This idea is reinforced by a vast amount of neuroscientific evidence, which contradicts the emphasis on
individualism
that prevails in Western societies, suggesting instead that the human brain is wired for affective resonance, with people naturally reflecting each other’s emotions and motivational states.
Such
individualism
fit neither Leninist nor traditional Chinese proscriptions for behavior by a high official.
I contend that an open society may also be threatened from the opposite direction; from excessive individualism, from too much competition and too little cooperation.
By focusing on the social benefits of competition while ignoring the costs to specific people, the market fundamentalists disregarded the principle of
individualism
at the heart of their own ideology.
The possession of a gun is the ultimate test of individualism, and using guns in wars is not abhorrent.
The Pope’s statement certainly is in accord with the extreme
individualism
of our age.
But I cannot imagine that he is quite whom Pope Francis had in mind when he was trying to bridge the gap between his faith and our age of unbound
individualism.
May’s Conservative rejection of extreme economic liberalism as “untrammeled free markets” and “selfish individualism,” for example, recalls traditional British paternalism.
The Germans play with “discipline,” the Italians with the defensive strength of Roman warriors, the Dutch with free-spirited individualism, the Spanish with the elegance of toreadors, and so on.
In recent decades, we have experienced a second flowering of the
individualism
associated with such nineteenth-century thinkers as John Stuart Mill.
Christian fundamentalism in America harks back to nineteenth-century populism and anti-intellectualism.Members of evangelical churches associate their beliefs with the rugged
individualism
of the early pioneers.
But Salafism is also a powerful source of personal identity, shaped and reinforced by a common form of dress and style of beard, a high degree of social conservatism, and a generally negative (but nuanced) perception of liberal
individualism.
It the domain of atavistic
individualism.
Because the “’68 generation” wrote on the walls “It is forbidden to forbid,” some hold it responsible for urban violence, extreme individualism, the crisis in education, executives’ “golden parachutes,” the decline of authority, and – why not? – climate change.
After all, Putinism is characterized less by what it endorses than by what it opposes – the West and Western-style democracy, liberalism, communism, and
individualism.
According to Mussolini’s 1932 essay La dottrina del fascismo (The Doctrine of Fascism), written with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, fascism opposes democracy, socialism, liberalism, and
individualism
(in addition to Bolshevism, parliamentarianism, Freemasonry, pacifism, and egalitarianism).
No single national culture is the driving force but, instead, globalization is powered by a restless
individualism
drawing on a growing store of mass symbols.
By ensuring that policies respond to flaws in the rules of the game, not to individuals’ fallibility or irrationality, this “methodological individualism” saves us from dictatorial paternalism.
Third, the narcissism of small differences and Bush’s war aside, Americans and Europeans share a common way of life and cultural commitment to tolerant
individualism
that is not found with the same intensity, concentration, and unchallenged dominance in most of the rest of the world.
Consumerism depended on a radical notion of
individualism.
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