The individual as part of the collective
Question from Internet:
“What are the similarities of an individualist and a collective self?”
Both are parts of being Human.
On one hand we are all separate individuals, feeling our uniqueness, the need to express ourselves, to facilitate our own survival.
On the other hand we are but individual cells of a fully integrated, single Human “super-organism” as we are learning now through the pandemic and associated global crisis.
So we need to learn - by copying into Human society Nature’s template of integration - how to align our individual self-expression, individual survival within the optional parameters of natural necessities, available resources.
At the same time we have to keep, constantly strengthen the crucial, mutually responsible, mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation the well-being and survival of the whole collective depends on.