Individualism: A Surprising Ally

We say that perfect is what lies within our core, but confusion that surely creates. Rationalism we simplify our actions to, yet emotions pave the way. Important we feel we are, yet invisible we remain. Pure souls seeing existence, but corruption is all we know to look for.

What does it imply that we are nicer as an I? That we give more to others when we in fact see them as an other? Rather than seeing the world as a me, we seem to be better with one another when I don’t understand the idea of we.

I’ll tell you what I think.

With nothing to gain but their dilated pupils and our self-absorbed arousal, erect we shall stand over those who have fallen. Blaming the vulnerable so softly that not even they themself can hear, a curse is cast across the land. Whispering in all our ears, “fall but not too quick, for I shall be there to catch you, and once safe, it is there that you must sit”.

This mission of good is forgetting one significant thing: You can not become good until you recognize that you are currently bad. That authentic giving will not come before manipulative craving. That affection will not come before perverted infatuation. That love will not come before power craving lust.

Individualism was my diagnosed evil. Seeing others as a them, and myself as an us, I placed an assumption on this fact. I believed that we would be better off when together, yet I overlooked a very peculiar thing. Collectivist or not, evil any of us can still remain. And given now the recognition of our own disaster, I see that individualism may just be a good placeholder. Of course not the end goal, but instead a moment of fresh air. For we shall give, even if there is nobody to give to because self righteously we must persist as long as we love ourselves enough to do so. Therefore, if individualism defines the extent of you, then randomly thrown, your riches will go. Unbiased and “pure” the more needing shall receive, which, for now, shall be just.