>>61123107
This is incorrect. Because what society deems “valuable” and what is actually “valuable” are worlds apart. To accept the first premise as true one must commit to collectivism. You don’t need to be “valuable” to society, you owe Soviet nothing. You owe nobody, no man, God, state, or anyone, anything. All acts of good will should be pure generosity, performed of one’s own volition, or it is a compelled act and therefore ethically/morally inert. The hypercollectivism that the post Westphalian world has morphed into is the byproduct of statism combined with industrial consumerism. Mass produced goods form and shape, then reinforce the idea of the self. That self is then passed through the filter of the nation and given an unnecessary rallying point over a flag that, let’s be honest, in most first world countries hardly alludes to any shared heritage, race, or culture anymore. All culture is benign now, assimilated by global capitalism, to a tasteless paste. Individualism has its flaws, and the truth, like most things, takes elements from both extremes, but in this moment of history collectivism has the mental reigns of the collective consciousness.
