10/20/2025
Individualism dosnt mean “uniformity”and betraying your own unique identity. It means complete separation of you from the whole, to which the whole, the communiry ceases to exist.
Capitalism is the virus of which causes this decay and cancer to fester. Witbout community, you lose your empathy, your sense of care for others, you forget that a single cell cant function without others within the same system. Individualism is the denial and forced rejection of your human nature.
Like all primates: both equally hominins and hominids alike; we Homo sapiens, we as humans, are a collectivist species and social animal.
Rampant and hyper individualism literally goes against nature, our evolutionary history and biology. It is a poison to the mind, the body, to our further progress, the planet, and to our survival as a species.
We need one another, not just metaphorically, but actually, physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and psychologically. Rampant individualism is violence against all of us, it is not our natural instinct and nature. We have survived cataclysmic events, endured more hardship than any other mammalian species, we have adapted, evolved, created culture, language, and art as a way to honor our deep connection with one another. What made us survive for the past well over 1,000,000 years since our ancestors Astrolopithicus and Homo Erectus first came together out of the plains, our ability to feel empathy, compassion, kindness, and our deeply inherent sense of belonging and justice in providing, caring and protecting one another has been the reason we have e survived for so long and evolved to become Homo Sapiens.
Even though other past human species no longer exist ,such as Neanderthals and Denosovans and almost a dozen others who were so closely related despite being seperate human soecies, they still associated with us, lived among us, broke bread with us, communicated and even bore children with us. Our history and legacy of humanity, the reason we still exist, is because we know a harm against one is a harm against all.
Things like race, religion, gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc, are all things developed over millennia, and all of them, are all simply social constructs with out a basis in objective reality. They do not define us. What defines us is our ability to carry within us the last vestige of the tapestry of humanity, our Homo cousin species, and our collective tenacity to survive through community.
To be human is tough, more so if we continue to fight against our birthright of our evolutionary past that has always been and always be, out of many one. We are but simple apes, we do not posses any physical defense feature to protect us from the elements or predators, compared to other animals, we are frail and weak. Yet, we persist, not through strength, but through our intellect and cleverness that is never independently or inherently possesed by birth but rather through tesching and passing knowledge on over generartions, our shared ability to empathize, to recognize each other as w collecive “One,” the local village and community, to the family unit, to the entire species.
We are not seperated by our favorite sports teams, our nationality, our neurotypes, our race, our gender, our religion, our fears, or our personally conditioned beliefs on who or what we think “defines” us and our identity. Some of these maybe important aspects of our experiences, but beyond a social level, beyond the personal identity born from them, all we see is human. A simple hominid, a resilient hominin, a clever and adaptable great ape, and most importantly, a human being who must learn again to return to community rather than rampant individualism and selfish behavior if we wish to survive.
Our fellow Hominin, Hominids, and extinct homo specie depend on us to see it through and carry on their legacy. We carry all of them in our DNA, we are the pinnacle of our shared evolutional history, and with that comes great responsibility. And that responsibility begins with love, empathy, protection, active participation with others, and a duty to protect the planet we inherited and the millions of years of evolution that allowed us to exist.
