Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Individualism makes for progress and betterment of the human race. Collectivism hinders both.
Hey, Breuk, good point, but how do we reconcile "rugged individualism" (aka Reagan/Goldwater) versus human considerations for exapanding options and opportunities to accomplish the basics?

To me the question boils down to how to recapture the meaning of freedom. George Lakoff (linguist) talked about this recently and it really hit me.