| | As I see it, the biggest obstacle to change is not the state, the government, the welfare system or anything like that. The problem I see with this is that in general there is a tendency to think in terms of either/or all the time. Either we have a welfare system or we dont, either we have a government or we dont, either we have an authoritarian state, or we dont. All other possibilities of what a welfare system COULD look like, or what a government COULD be like, or how authority would make the most good, for example. People simply turn 180 degrees without realizing that they are stuck on the same old track forever going only backwards and forwards.
To be an individualist is about finding your own track, wich means that you have to have your own morality, your own way of thinking, your own way of solving problems, your own knowledge, your own style, your own everything. But to do that, first you gotta realize what kind of system you are feeling trapped inside. (I recommend the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn for that liberating purpose.)
To be anti authoritarian is negative morality in disguise (life code that works against the individuals and his needs instead of for him).
Everyone should want to be an authority in one way or another because in our society, being an authority means having power over your life and the power to change things and to be without authority means being powerless, unable to do any change at all.
Now the biggest question(it seems) of them all, in our binary society, can a person be an individualist and still be around other people?
People get stuck on this question because they seem to think that to be around other people you have to sacrifice something and thus you can no longer be an individualist. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is correct tho that in our society there is a lot of that kind of negative morality; to do self secrifice is good, to be selfish or having pride is bad, and so on.
But in a positive relationship with others, the simple deal of being around other people pays off. Why encourage a relationship that is not paying off? It is the same absurdity of this question. But it is ofcource reinforced by the idea that self sacrifice is good, and being selfish is bad. But in the end we will all be slaughtering and cutting eachother up because of that argument. Today mentally, tomorrow physically.
But the biggest bone I have to pick is that "authority is RESPONSIBLE" for the resistance to change! It is the biggest bone because, what does that argument mean about the rest os us? Thats right, we have to wait for the greedy and selfish 'authority' to do something. With a supposed argument of rebellion you render yourself powerless and without any other function than to gnag and walk the same track back and forth forever.
The biggest resistance to change is your own fears and isolation, not the authority. There IS no authority, there is only you and billions of other lifes and lifeforms around you, intermingling with you, sometimes taking advantage of you, sometimes helping you, and mostly being friendly to you. To be an individualist means to be able to take care of yourself because such a person realizes that others are not always dependable, not always reasonable, not always self sacrificing, not always flawless and good, and neither do they have to be. An individualist is mature and knowledgeble enough to find a good way.
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