>>> 'Something Big' HomeShifting Our Political FocusI'm a firm believer that the most efficient 'unit' of human organization is the individual human. The more one multiples the number of people involved in an activity the more the organizational burdens of communication, logistics, interpersonal tensions - and even mistrust weigh us down. This is not a surrender to egoism in it's destructive forms - rather it's an invocation of egoism in a generous, beneficial and co-operative way. It's grounded in the belief that most people, when unsullied by the residue left by various political 'salvation' ventures, default to 'good'. That people - as individuals - are fundamentally 'good' is a huge advantage and we have drastically neglected that social gift. The role of individual ethics is often non-existent in modern life, often being replaced with sheer 'legality' in the business and commercial realms - ie. if it's legal, it's good. Legality is not the worst substitute for morality, but neither is it adequate - one cannot 'look up' ethics in a statute book. The belief that corporations, governments and any other collective venture can have a moral dimension is a myth. Every moral choice is that of individuals. The pseudo-morality of collective acts is fraught with complexity, confusion and effective paralysis. The belief that a collectivity can have a moral dimension is part and parcel of perverse social and economic dynamics that snare us into activities that either service the goals of the destructive egoism of others, or waste human effort on false political ideology. All morality is individual - it can't help but be, even when it occurs in the collective context. We need to shift our political focus to reflect that. |
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