Individualism's grotesque form in the limit is "I am the only thing that matters."
- Individualism's grotesque form in the limit is "I am the only thing that matters."
- The proper amount of individualism leads to innovation for the overall system.
- But too much tears it apart.
- The advice of "do what the hero of your movie would do right now" is hyper-individualist.
- It fundamentally ignores externalities of your actions and treats everyone else as NPCs that don't matter as much as you.
- If everyone in society followed this advice, society would fall apart.
- We don't have our own movie, we all are in the same movie.