Today's The New York Times online carried an editorial quote from a Kurt Andersen titled The Downside of Liberty:"For hippies and bohemians as for businessmen and investors, the extreme individualism of the '60s has been triumphant. Selfishness won."
Altruists like Andersen never get it right. Selfishness rises out of the selfless individual. Altruism got us into this mess, and his solution is more of the same. So evil proliferating is compounded by adding fuel to the fire of wickedness to make it burn higher and hotter, consuming everything in its path. Leftists mean well but their good intentions are transformed into a nasty nightmare due to the unintended consequences of their horrible solutions.
Actual, widespread individualism has never been tried or really learned by an generation of trained, smart, moral, innovative, aspiring individualists. They would be self-interested, but selfishness is not one of their traits. Paradoxically, their enlightened self-interest is the only successful means to achieving and maintaining what is good for all.
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