The two Americas: Collectivists vs. individualists
District of Columbia | August 3, 2021
. “I’m tired of being nice to vaccine refusers,” a writer for the Washington Post complained just a few days ago, echoing the widely spread message from the left: The unvaccinated are to blame. The oft-unstated message is clear: America’s pesky penchant for individualism is to blame. After all, a country steeped in collectivism wouldn’t have this problem — wouldn’t have to deal with naysayers, with rebels both with and without causes. A country that takes its marching orders from government, filled with citizens who are trained from Day One to rely on, even pine for, dictates from their political overlords — a country like that filled with citizens like this simply obeys. They take the COVID-19 shot. They take the shot and move on, and nary a complaint is heard. The good for the country is achieved.The good for the collective is done.
If there were a line that could be drawn to show the precise crossing into America’s complete demise, then the mental figurings that form the accusatory and hostile arguments against those who are reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine would be it. It’s the crossing from individualism into collectivism. It’s the cultural shift of the majority’s consciousness from inherent belief in individual choice to one that defaults by nature into regard for the collective. For the good of society, according to government’s standards. For the greater good — of the state. It’s not just the vaccine… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)