The Eternal Problem
5 min readMay 5, 2024
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
— Joan Didion
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Individualism is rubbish. The individual is an entirely powerless unit; it could not give birth to itself, cannot raise itself, educate itself, or change the world itself. It is entirely a product of the people and environment around it. To…