An Individual's Dream: Essays On The Philosophy Of Sassoon

ISBN-13: 9781451577150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 186 str.

Elias Sassoon

Opis

These essays were undertaken because of the need. As long as people continue to live unhappily, isolated and without hope; there will be that need. The question, will humans admit to their unhappiness? Most pretend all is right with the individual. We're governed by inhumanity and ruled by the inhumane. Evil controls; good retreats. The greedy, narrow-minded, and inarticulate triumph; the bright and brilliant watch. It's a world of falsifiers claiming to be in search of truth, and claiming to be people of reason and integrity. They're really after the fortune, and achieve it by catering to the needs of the greater public. Give the people what they want. These hucksters form impregnable clicks that excludes the true individual who is feared, and suppressed at every turn. The huckster, or barbarians, as we call them - those that represent collectivization - rule. From their thrones, they eye humanity as a formless clump to be manipulated for their own purposes. These barbarians hate the common man and their creativity and originality, but will always use them to raise their profit margins. These collectivized barbarians are always dull, unoriginal, and the walking cliches of this earth. The individual - who is excluded from the collectivization process - is powerless to break down the massive walls the barbarian have constructed. They can only stand their ground and never doubt themselves. If they do, they are lost to the maddening crowd. The bottom line, the individual is under constant attack. What is an individual? How are they distinguished from the mass man? What is role identity and how is it incompatible with individualism? How is the abstraction, the ideology, the religious identity incompatible with individualism? Why is the crowd so opposed to the individual? What methods does the crowd use to suppress them? How can they fight back and win against the masses aligned against them? These questions are explored in this collection of philosophical essays."