Dating has shifted because a lot of what is taught to us is “focus on yourself,” “build your career,” “don’t depend on anyone.” Great advice — until it turned into hyper‑individualism. Now people date like they’re protecting themselves from inevitable doom as if it’s a trauma response which is... read more

10mo

INTJ

Cancer

It's a joke

Would saying "It's just a joke" not effectively be saying "I understand this thing upsets you but I personally value my own amusement too much to even rationalize anything but."? It truly seems society has normalized individualism versus being communal yet seems surprised everyone comes off as a... read more

1mo

INTP

Gemini

iceberg chart meme I made for my custom rationalist life-style, "Auto-Deism"

"Auto-Deism is an extremely radical and unique extremist life-style based on The ideology of Consistencism, which essentially promotes a revival of prehistoric individualism with modern Science and Engineering. The life-style’s core premise is that the astronomical fundamental advantages of scale... read more

4mo

INTP

IMO hating on MBTI is a sign of…

having been pickled in toxic individualism. I.e. people who are so attached to the notion of everyone being unique (which is true) that they think it's blasphemy to sort people into categories or perform any sort of cluster analysis on them. Thoughts?

9mo

INFP

Sagittarius

Is there actually a "normal" and is it important?

Let's keep this about people/personalities for this discussion: This question is a bit hard to explain but basically with the way things are and have been historically, everything is always changing and what is considered normal for a person or situation evolves. We hear the tropes of people... read more

11mo

ENFJ

Scorpio

Fighting Against Individualism

In America, hyper individualism is a state of being that was created by society to get people to compete with each other to focus on themselves instead of working together and caring about the community. This was prompted by society because it enables high achievement for individuals and it results... (edited) read more