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2023 December 07, 05:38 | |
Thoughts on an Oscar Wilde quote a coworker posted | |
"Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and | |
disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it | |
seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny | |
of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine." | |
-- Oscar Wilde | |
I'm no opponent of individual rights, sensible autonomy, the | |
freedom to go where you want, form your own relationships, and | |
listen to who you want (relative to being told what to do)--to | |
paraphrase some concepts from "The Dawn of Everything: A New | |
History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. | |
However... individualism can and often is overdone in our modern | |
context. While the expression of individuality in art is no | |
issue, and indeed as Wilde says, helps avoid the reduction of men | |
to machines, nonetheless man cannot exist as individuals. To the | |
extent that the drive for individualism separates people from | |
each other (and/or sets them against each other), it violates | |
basic requirements of human survival that were inviolable until | |
pretty recently... humans don't live long alone. | |
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2023 December 07, 05:35 | |
Obligatory first post in Scrape's Underground! | |
So, it's a little nuts how I ended up here, but bottom line, I | |
started running out of space in my Google account. I could buy | |
more space from Google, but decided instead to let my money go | |
to SDF to re-up my expired MetaARPA membership and return to the | |
MetaArray. While doing that, I stumbled down the halls of the | |
interwebs... and ended up at Gopher. So here I am... | |
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