He doesn't understand that humans produce to survive. Whether it's hunting or agriculture. Even paleolithic tribes produced for one another. The idea that everyone should only produce for themselves and act as complete individuals is bad because it means any mistake means you're dead. Break a foot? Dead. Get the sniffles? Dead. Fight a wolf and get chewed up too badly? Dead. The way our society works is heavily tied to our relationship to the production. It's basic Marxism.
He seems to view past societies as just groups of individuals who only produced for themselves, completely independent from everyone else. That's never happened. The self-made man is just capitalist propaganda from the late 19th and early 20th century. It's never existed. Completely ahistorical and immaterial. It's always been that some group does the work and some group benefits from it. It's the change in those relationships that drives history. Not one guy going to live by himself in the woods and dominating nature and being transcendental about shit.
Literally our only evolutionary advantage over other animals is our social intelligence and our ability to work together towards common goals. Our intelligence and our ability to make primitive tools isn't what made our species be able to survive a harsh wilderness with predators that are far stronger and more deadly than we are. It was our tendency to form communities and work together that led to our status as the dominant lifeform on this planet, for lack of a better phrase.
Individualism wants to enjoy the benefits of that collective work while not admitting that they owe any debt to the contributions that made their individual success possible.
He doesn't understand that humans produce to survive. Whether it's hunting or agriculture. Even paleolithic tribes produced for one another. The idea that everyone should only produce for themselves and act as complete individuals is bad because it means any mistake means you're dead. Break a foot? Dead. Get the sniffles? Dead. Fight a wolf and get chewed up too badly? Dead. The way our society works is heavily tied to our relationship to the production. It's basic Marxism.
He seems to view past societies as just groups of individuals who only produced for themselves, completely independent from everyone else. That's never happened. The self-made man is just capitalist propaganda from the late 19th and early 20th century. It's never existed. Completely ahistorical and immaterial. It's always been that some group does the work and some group benefits from it. It's the change in those relationships that drives history. Not one guy going to live by himself in the woods and dominating nature and being transcendental about shit.
Literally our only evolutionary advantage over other animals is our social intelligence and our ability to work together towards common goals. Our intelligence and our ability to make primitive tools isn't what made our species be able to survive a harsh wilderness with predators that are far stronger and more deadly than we are. It was our tendency to form communities and work together that led to our status as the dominant lifeform on this planet, for lack of a better phrase.
Individualism wants to enjoy the benefits of that collective work while not admitting that they owe any debt to the contributions that made their individual success possible.
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