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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...

Gun control or People Control

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"Freedom has never been gained or lost in one sweeping  coup d'etat, but more in small stark steps that culminate in either the victory or defeat of  the people." Freedom is a heavy burden to bare, and it requires those who operate under it, to observe the world so that  they will not lose it. Freedom is a double edge sword that cuts both ways and sometimes will cut those wielding her if they are not paying attention. Look at what is going on America and understand that we are suffering from cuts from the sword of freedom. Just because you cut yourself with a tool (a sword like freedom is a tool that is used by people) does not mean you put it away. You either find a better tool for the job, or you improve your method of wielding it. Both of these option requires the user to do work either on the improvement of the tool, or to practice working with it (tool). We can not and should not give away our freedoms because we have been cut by them. We hav...