We are in the moral battle for civilization’s life – the individual vs. the sacrifice of the individual. Living morally, i.e., to act such that one wants to live another day, is where the rubber of responsibility meets the road. The issue of morality is that it is an individual undertaking for the purpose of not simply surviving, but wanting to, i.e., looking forward to surviving.
The collective is worthless in this undertaking since it can never recognize the individuality of this undertaking. Even if the collective manages to keep a person alive doesn’t mean that he wants to live. To do that requires the unleashing of the individual’s pursuit of values which fuel his life force.
It’s interesting to me that OWS wants to destroy individuality, but they have no passion for building anything. Wanting to destroy does not equal wanting to live – and this is the Achilles heel of all of the collectivist talk now being offered. It is no mistake that all collectivist undertakings from a state on down to a tribe cannot keep up once the individual grasped what it was to tap his moral power. That is the great lesson of the United States, which we are only beginning to understand, that is up to us to teach the world.
