The Climb

Journal Entry: 1-15-2012:

We humans, for three million years, have slowly evolved upwards to what we are today. Our values, our way of life and our institutions have grown apace.

From the individualist point of view, I would suggest that human moral values that we live by up to now are mob ethics, and they are still very popular; they are still the order of the day. This system of ethics promotes selfishness, low self-esteem, group-orientedness and altruism.

Where free will, chance or genetic tendency brings a person to adulthood as a genuine individualist--devoid of group affiliations, he surely will be buffeted by peer group wrath and rejection. He will be discredited, identified and labeled as a social outcast and loser. He will be shunned or persecuted as different or other. This pattern has repeated itself millions of times over the course of human history. If the individual is sane, sensible, self-loving, hardy and resilient, buoyed by a rewarding career, a loving partner, some friends and some solid support, he may weather the withering social dismissal fairly well.

If he is less talented, less bright, less fortunate, less sane, upbeat or kind, he may elect to become an outcast, a terrorist or outlaw that seeks revenge on people or society. He may become evil or mentally ill, or some mixture thereof. He may wield free will and be responsible for his actions, or primarily is a victim of societal, ingrained, instinctive herd cruelty towards all and any individualists, rebellious or not, wicked or noble.

Like my fellow individualists, for decades I have suffered as an individualist rejected by society as an inferior loser.  My sympathy rests with the violent, destructive rebels picked on by society and subsequently getting back at the members of indifferent (passive hostility) or aggressive (active hostility) society. I condone not the wrongs that these rebels commit, but push forth the concept that they are more sinned against than sinning. Members of human society have never known, till the rise of still unaccepted Mavellonialist principles, what to do with individualists or how to treat individualists.

What is the solution? Members of society need to evolve further socially and ethically to make room for individualists. As the society advances from traditional ethics of altruism/groupism/mobism and grows towards a modern humane ethical standard of egoism, individualism/anarchism, the civilization of cultured, cultivated individualists will arrive, to be gain of all. As young people are taught that, who is in or who is out, or who is a joiner or who is a loner, or who is coming into the fold or who is leaving the fold, who is an individuator or a non-individuator, who is popular or who is unpopular, who is well-positioned or of lowly ranking, who is rich or who is poor, each person is to be judged as an individudal, the lesson will have been learned that all people are to be associated (unless they are evil or dangerous) without misgivings. Those that are decent but diverse can be warmly welcomed and associated with. As noted, only an evildoer of significant evil would be rejected until he repented and atoned.

When individualists are socially popular, accepted and left alone whether they join or not, or conform or not to the local mores, few of them will hate society, turn against it or plot and work to harm it.

Individualists need to work a little harder to be upbeat and friendly and to fit in (or at least not magnify the problems by being obnoxiously an outsider) where they can without compromising their core values or losing their freedom in exchange for being welcomed in and fitting in.

Joiners need to be more tolerant, welcoming and accepting of differing others, but they really will not make much headway at this until each of them joins a bit less to set aside time for individuating.