• LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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    It’s childish to believe that rugged individualism can help society flourish. Japan believes in collective action, nobody is left out, everyone cooperates because it’s not you versus me, it’s we together. The signs of an actual social construct, not an individual western me me me

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      1 month ago

      Egoism is not “rugged individualism” or whatever ML slander you want to call it, it is co-operation. Voluntary co-operation out of wanting to see others live their best lives and be free rather than a because a system says you must. Egoism is everyone cooperates because it’s not we together, it’s we want you to have a life full of well-being and will find a way to accommodate you that works for everyone.

      You should read more about the ‘Union of Egoists’ and how people can come together in a mutually respectful, open, and equal manner.

      And Japan has an oppressive and rigid social structure that ostracises and outcasts those who do not conform, it is a horrible way to live for anyone who doesn’t fit into the very narrow definition of acceptable. No one should suffer that homogeneous conformist approach to living.