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The Lone Wolf Is a Dying Breed: Assassinating the Myth of Hyper-Individualism

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The Lone Wolf Is a Dying Breed: Assassinating the Myth of Hyper-Individualism Grand rising to the Warriors, Elders, and NationBuilders. Let’s stop lying to ourselves. We are drowning in a cultural pool of toxic hyper-individualism. Modern society aggressively markets the myth of the "rugged individual"—the isolated "alpha male" who needs absolutely nobody to win. It’s a beautifully packaged lie designed to keep you exhausted, fragile, and easily broken by the storms of life. Carrying the solitary weight of "I" is a miserable, unnatural burden. Look at the media you consume: even Hollywood's fictional supervillains have an entire staff and a dedicated team to execute their vision, while they sell *us* the narrative of the lone superhero saving the day with nothing but a few gadgets. James Bond was fly, but he lived a lonely, sad, and empty existence. The truth is simple: **The "I" does not build. It is the "We" that constructs for et...
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Mind states set up life/
They produce thoughts that lead us/
Back from wence they came/
Ha2ku by ha2tim

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http://gyenyamejourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-now-ha2ku-by-ha2tim.html

Here's your quote:
Dogen : "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? "

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
~  Henry David Thoreau

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