By D.C. Link
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Samuel Adams
Barton, David. The Founders’ Bible: The Origin of the Dream of Freedom. Edited by David Barton, Shiloh Road, 2012. 1879.
Individualism is not only “I can change the world”, but is also the confusion between Republicanism with a form of government theory that focuses on the liberties of the individual. This is usually something said in defense of a republic or when the differentiation between a republic and democracy is made. The truth is, that to keep a republic, the focus must be on the execution of the authority of its constitution, by the government, and by the people, and both in strict collaboration with the other.
The confusion of what freedom is is where the allure of individual empowerment stems from. After years of a society being told that each person has a right to his own opinion, expression, and to decide their destiny, that society becomes individualistic.
When any person thinks they need not be restrained and that they’re above any form of government put over them, they’re not only freedom-focused but also suffer from individualism. Individualism, as mentioned in Part 1, is when people are governed by their own opinion, or so they think. In reality, their opinion is formed by outside sources, not them, and therefore, without knowing, are controlled by those sources.
Opinion is what one is governed by in the absence of self-government. An opinion is by definition a baseless view or judgment. This makes the rule of opinion a prevailing sign of the presence of individualism, and that is usually supported by the exuberance in the freedom of self-expression, and more so by the defense of it. Because it’s a right, right?
The right of self-expression, not a constitutionally protected right, will always be one of the first things to rise out of the freedom-focused society because of the very confusion that freedomism is designed to cause. That’s because those opinions that are formed by outside sources are designed to cause as many people as possible to be blinded to the actualities of self-government. Those outside sources, otherwise known as manipulators, know that once self-government is extinguished, then something else is going to control its place.
When an individual ceases governance to outside sources [manipulators] in exchange for the allure of individual freedom/self-expression, they in turn relinquish their power to those same manipulators. That power [freedom] is then replaced with the baseless thinking installed by the outside source. The individual now becomes the hands and feet of the false belief that was installed and the servant of the installer. To keep this article readable, elaborations of this point will be made in later articles called Abundancism, Hegemonism, and Democracism.
Then, as a result of government by opinion, and the masses become the hands and feet of said beliefs, there now is the defense of the new laws of these kingdoms. Now that the laws of nature are subject to criticism, new laws can now be installed to compensate. In this madness, The Constitution becomes the enemy of the new order, and any who defend it are subject to being put in the proverbial prison of the defectors of the consensus.
The defense of freedom that was discussed in the first article, which is unconstitutional and antithetical to our founding principles, becomes increasingly visceral to a point that anyone who opposes the opinion of the self-proclaimed patriot is dubbed a supporter of dictators, and/or an asset of whatever country or regime deemed not free enough; that has somehow become a “threat to national security. The appointment of dubious on the enlightened is merely the work of the collection of individuals who sincerely believe that they are defending freedom by their American heritage, or at least what they think their heritage is.
It doesn’t stop with foreign policy. The thought police, who have their own opinion as the doctrine by which they fill their dockets, will zero-in on and highlight any that opposes whatever they have deemed established or scientifically proven. Although none of the topics are proven, and in most cases, the information used cannot be correctly assessed, the war rages on, and the confusion grows.
The supposed continuous infringement on the rights and safety of the individual perpetuates the confusion. The war of disinformation rages on while the climate change enthusiast defends the unsustainable so-called solutions, the pseudo-psychologist continues on for the pointless gun control measures, the self-proclaimed capitalist beats about to shut down the socialist, and the vaccinated berate the unvaxxed as if they caused the coof of 2019; then, of course, everything in the opposite direction without a single solution to a single problem. The result is that gas prices go up and the grids get less reliable while school shootings become more probable and the government gets more tyrannical, the free market becomes less free while becoming less about competition and people, and more about profit and separation of the classes.
Inidvidualism is institutional rudeness, and leads us to Part 3, Abundancism.