Also there are no other public services simply because there
is no vision of a collective--a.k.a. a public--there are only autonomously acting
independent individuals. In short there is no need for any public anything
since each has the unquestionable right to act independently and free from accordance
with or obligation to the ideas of another person or persons. Individual rights are supreme.
Moreover, in this world we see each person learning
independently (of course) on his/her own.
Learning is purely individual learning since accepting ideas from
another would necessitate displacing one's own idea with that of another's and
would equate to another's idea directing one's actions, which is counter to
free independent individual action. Also
as a result there is an absence of scientific knowledge, as both science and
its advancement would be impossible without cooperative and collaborative
action. Generally the advancement of knowledge
among a crowd of individuals is quite unlikely because following or working
with the ideas of others would be strongly resisted among independently acting
individuals--creative and synthetic thinking would be rare.
Because the efficient and effective functioning of any
system rests upon collective action there are no such systems in this free
independent individual world. Therefore the existence of a functioning system of
exchange and economic activity, as well as the development of industries and
business organizations would not be possible. The whole idea of free
independent people willfully coming together in support of the accomplishment
of another's idea and interests--especially when no obligation can be assumed from
the other to them--is antithetical to unbridled autonomy, to a world of free
independent individuals.
With each free and independent individual acting as if each
has dominion over the resources nature provides, each will use them as he/she
sees fit. That is to say, there is no
concern for either what is left for others or how it is left for others, since
either of these implies an individual has an obligation to or is constrained by
the others. Again this runs smack in the
face of being independent of other individuals.
Stewardship of the environment, not only for one's self but for all
others who have or will have a need for these resources is a concept that cannot
be embraced within this world.
Moreover, to the extent that doing one's own thing allows
for procreation we have the corresponding (although remote) possibility of
future generations of free independent individuals. That is, the likelihood of
this is near zero since it requires two independent individuals giving up their
independence to be dependent on each other and to be obligated to a third
individual. If this remote possibility
did materialize, clearly infant mortality would be off the chart (100%) since
newborn human beings could not live for long as free and independent beings. In other words, since the development of a
human being requires one or more individuals being obligated to and responsible
for the child's development, this required collective action is antithetical to
a world of unbridled autonomy.
My life is all about me getting what's mine cannot be the
way to a high performing society, much less a healthy and harmonious
society. Why? A society of people implies the existence of
a collective, a "We' and not merely a crowd of "Me's'. Being free independent
individuals does not necessarily mean we should freely do as we please or more
specifically that we should do as we wish for our own pleasure.
History provides more than enough examples of intelligent
individuals (acting as if they are free independent individuals) without a
complimentary understanding and heartfelt sense of oneness with other beings doing
horrible things. The 2008 Financial
Crisis is a case in point where unencumbered people inflicted harm upon many
others in their pursuit of their own interest; there was no felt concern or responsibility
for the consequences others might experience, there was no sense of "we'.
This thought experiment, which takes the belief that human
beings are at base free independent individuals to its logical conclusion,
clearly shows the idea to be more fantasy and fabrication than fact. It should be clear from this thought
experiment that free independent individuals as a principle for life is a
recipe for the destruction. If people
critically think about this notion the vast majority will acknowledge its
falsehood and its destructive impact on society.
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