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Marlene: I am not sure we are on the same wave length. I am not speaking
of those levels of political struggle. Seems to me the idea of individuality
came into being (in modern times) as a Renaissance germ and matured into
a living idea in the early 1700's. I think of the work of John Stuart Mill
and his expressions of the primacy of the individuality. These thoughts were
important to our founding fathers, but another proponant of Individualism,
Alexis de Tocqueville came here and saw some serious flaws in the system
that threatened the very element it proposed to protect. (Of course, we
know that Tocqueville came from a background where the notion of a republic
was alien.) Now from that time until the first third of our century, the
notion of Individuality has been largely unquestioned. Even today, the only
entity in our society with any rights that are inalienable (not granted by
law and not subject to loss by law) are individuals. No committee, association
group, corporation, assembled body, or any kind of entity has such rights.
On the other hand, I hear from those that would often have the most to lose
disquieting voices that wish to pull down the idea of individuality from its
lofty status: the death of the individual. This haslittle to do with the
notion of genius, tho I will agree that the idea of genius could not come
into reality without the idea of individuality (and inspiration, of course).
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Marlene: I am not sure we are on the same wave length. I am not speaking
of those levels of political struggle. Seems to me the idea of individuality
came into being (in modern times) as a Renaissance germ and matured into
a living idea in the early 1700's. I think of the work of John Stuart Mill
and his expressions of the primacy of the individuality. These thoughts were
important to our founding fathers, but another proponant of Individualism,
Alexis de Tocqueville came here and saw some serious flaws in the system
that threatened the very element it proposed to protect. (Of course, we
know that Tocqueville came from a background where the notion of a republic
was alien.) Now from that time until the first third of our century, the
notion of Individuality has been largely unquestioned. Even today, the only
entity in our society with any rights that are inalienable (not granted by
law and not subject to loss by law) are individuals. No committee, association
group, corporation, assembled body, or any kind of entity has such rights.
On the other hand, I hear from those that would often have the most to lose
disquieting voices that wish to pull down the idea of individuality from its
lofty status: the death of the individual. This haslittle to do with the
notion of genius, tho I will agree that the idea of genius could not come
into reality without the idea of individuality (and inspiration, of course).
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