American Individualism is one of the most harmful lies that’s a part of the American Zeitgeist. People really believe that everyone should “pay their own way”, which just serves to empower the most profit motivated people and organizations. America: The Eternal Adolescence
I was walking through Minute Man Park (where the first battle of the American revolution was fought) last year and stopped to read a sign. It was about a barn raising for a colonist that the community came together to work on. Rugged individualism is a crock. We were founded on community.