In Reply to: I don't believe posted by JakeB on April 15, 2025 at 10:34:38
So once upon a time the ideology of inividualism did not reign supreme in the land. That's not the case any more. Societies and cultures change over time.
"This machine kills fascists", while a good sentiment, it also plays off of the idea that individual stance is an effective tool against fascism. What "this machine" does is to raise the voice of one individual and maybe a handful of sing-along audiences. If that audience gets too loud, there's always the Victor Jara solution. So ... great music, a great emotional outlet, which is valuable in and of itself, but not a real threat by a long shot.
The fact that you reference Biden as the throwback to collectivism tells you what an old world concept it has become. The only group that seems to kinda sorta understand the value of collective action would be the young progressives out there, though even in that case it's a bit murky when they tend to define their coalition as a function of the aggregation of the incidental attributes of each individual contained therein (the gay-straight alliance is a good example). They like to distribute righhts over individuals, instead of going for a unitary right that encopasses and entails all of them, i.e., "human rights". (At some point I'll be putting a post about what I *don't* like about that "First they came for ..." poem and what it implies.)
I love how you've decided that I'm a youngun when the thing I am advocating for and bemoaning the absence of is something that's pretty much older than the hills. This is the part of me that pretty much reveals what time period I grew up in.