Hoffer in his famous videos expatiated at length about how cooperative Americans are, and how large is their enjoyment of associating and their sense of brotherhood. He compliments them for their trusting, optimistic, can-do approach to letting the common people loose, almost completely unsupervised, to accomplish whatever is the task at hand. They will get it well done, under budget, on time and with minimal fuss.
What underpins all this? It is the unprecendented American culture of individualism, liberty, real liberty, enjoyed by the common people, roughly equals, running things in their business culture, not ruled by intellectuals, elites and commisars.
Collectivism breeds envy, bickering, gloom, needless bloated costs, inefficiencies, a lack of will, productivity much interfering supervision and over-management from a command-and-control central authority.
Collectivism breeds unkindness, rudeness, all spying on all, all against all in the jungle. Collectivism breeds pessimism, a universal lack of trust wherein none can be trusted and all betray all.
The world that Hoffer described is slipping away, as we all will soon culturally, economically and politically reside somewhere south of Havanna.
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