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by peoplefromibiza 1471 days ago
> individualism, liberty and self-reliance are pillars of the modern developed world

Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly disagrees with you.

I believe you confused individualism with autonomy and free will.

a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically uniform when “every citizen, being assimilated to all the rest, is lost in the crowd“.

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

a true pillar of modern developed World