Comments on: What American thinkers once wrote about The Individual

By: BigMG

BigMG — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:08:52 +0000

Read a book years ago called, “Killing Monsters”. It was about comic books and how they helped virtualize real world threats in ways that young boys could learn to face the world.

What you just wrote ties a bow around what that message was:

Individuals face evil, group consensus embraces it.

By: Keanu

Keanu — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:02:28 +0000

This is very spot on. As we speak, the attacks on the Individual are happening on a massive scale. Not only in America, but in other parts of the world too, even in Europe. It’s always the “victimhood” mentality of collective thinking “educated” students that continue to have the spotlight. Why is this? Because this is what is capable of diminishing critical thinking, and all sense of Logic, Intelligence, and Reasoning go out the window for the sake of weak minds.

By: Mara Clemente

Mara Clemente — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 05:16:51 +0000

Yet we are also collective. Thank you for such an enlightening piece, as always. Ubuntu

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 19:02:44 +0000

Spot on. I was thinking along these lines last night , thinking about the grey ghosts in our midst. This kind of persona usually starts in a person’s thirties, but it can be as early as their teens.

You see them in the grocery store, at the post office, at restaurants. They have had “character building” self denial of the corporate or government employment stamped upon their psyches with such force and/or duration that there is barely any discernible individuality left…a mere whisper of a shade passing in hades.

the grey ghosts have learnt to not be the nail that sticks up and gets hammered down. They have learnt to “go along to get along”, not to rock the boat, and to acquiesce quickly to all demands of authority. .
People pleasers, they become a slave to all.
This is a result of the ubiquitous corporate culture.
(bear in mind corporations are all government franchises, it is the very large corporations i am speaking of here, not the small businessman)

Most “scientists” view individuality as an apparition of conditioning and reflexive responses…what they strive for is brought to realization in the grey ghosts, the hollow shades that line the corridors of life waiting for death.

By: Ozzie Thinker

Ozzie Thinker — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 03:05:38 +0000

Emerson was a very clever man, Jon.

He worked out the impossible. Laws don’t “give” freedoms. They REMOVE them. On the back of the removal of freedoms governments can manipulate and position, position and manipulate. Why does it need a genius to comprehend that?

A question for you. Why do “they” call those that are unable to discern fundamental truths “fundamentalists”? Is it sarcasm?

Best
OT

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:26:31 +0000

Mr. Rappoport.

I hope you have a chance to investigate professor Jordan Peterson of Toronto, the intellectual, psychologist, teacher, lecturer, recently under attack for voicing his concerns about the Canadian governments’ compelled speech policies and the fascist, Orwellian direction your northern neighbors are “embracing” under the guise of “freedom of expression” brought to you by the usual suspects, (SJW’s, brainwashed students incapable of critical thought, certain special interest groups, the downtrodden/ marginalized, the cult of victimology, etc.).
I think you both have similar messages and ways of thinking.
Perhaps you’d agree.

Thank you again for your prolific writing, bringing the public the most interesting, informative truths .
It is always refreshing.

By: From Quebec

From Quebec — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 23:50:15 +0000

The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them the space to be themselves and to develop their own personalities and characteristics. (Donald J, Trump)

By: astraeaisabella

astraeaisabella — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:52:55 +0000

YES!