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Not really sure about your terms here, you seem to be glorifying individualism in practice, but blaming it in name? What could be more individualistic than doin
by microcolonel 8y ago
Not really sure about your terms here, you seem to be glorifying individualism in practice, but blaming it in name? What could be more individualistic than doing something on your own?
- lgregg 8y agoI disagree, I'm glorifying autonomy in relation to self-determination theory but critiquing individualism as a cultural ideology or orientation. I used different words because I wasn't expecting a response like yours. If you want a deep dive, this is a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12518973 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12518973
- microcolonel 8y agoCould you explain your distinction in plain English? Virtually nobody on this planet is entitled to read your source without shelling out a nontrivial amount of money, you haven't given a "shallow dive", so I have no interest in a deep one. I can accept that you make a distinction, but to me the beginning and end of individualism is respect for individual autonomy, and I suspect that a lot of English literates would agree.
- lgregg 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443985
- grasshopperpurp 8y agoThis reply, a little further up, should clarify the OP's point. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17437151&goto=item%3Fid%3D17435671%2317437151 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17437151&goto=item%3Fi...