Comments by "Joe Madden" (@joemadden4160) on "Why only individual thinking can reunite America | Tim Snyder | Big Think" video.

  1. Jesus, where does one start with this kind of mindless babble. Without the individual you have nothing. Without the individual thought you have nothing. Though it may be true that to bring an idea to fruition an individual will need aids to assist him in his endeavours, it is the individual that creates, never the group. How many people did Van Gogh have to help him paint his portraits or landscapes or...How many people helped Shakespeare write his plays? Was it a group collective that created Da Vinci's creations?
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  2. Abstraction. Morality, ethics, human law, religion...abstraction. No one cares about that. At all, Dr. Snyder. We live in a social/economic Darwinian universe in which it's me or them. In the words of Dr. Pinker, the abstraction known as "society" goes out the window when ones own survival is dependent on individual action.
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