> Our cultural emphasis on individual achievement is dangerously selfish and tethered to a value system that degrades entire groups of people who are stigmatize

> Our cultural emphasis on individual achievement is dangerously selfish and tethered to a value system that degrades entire groups of people who are stigmatized as existing outside the boundaries of normalcy. But these boundaries are arbitrary, and the very category of normalcy is a fiction. This could be said of any systemic discrimination in society, including racism, sexism and others. This is an erasure of their inherent human-ness.