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Welcome to maga america... Land of rugged individualism where governments have been shrunk to a size that could be drowned in a bathtub. Ah, American Exceptionalism - where each and every one of us is free to starve or die on our own.
"‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help"
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‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help
Texas state legislators will be in Kerrville on Thursday for a hearing on the July 4 floods. They may get an earful.

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

"US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations. Causes range from lax gun laws to privatized health care. What connects them is a corrosive culture of individualism that makes child safety parents’ private business."
The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/us-child-deaths-health-safety/

Musician Mereba on cultivating joy in the creative process https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-mere…

Musician Mereba on cultivating joy in the creative process – The Creative Independent
Musician Mereba discusses stepping into your creative power through community and joy, embracing your differences, moving away from individualism.

Modeling society with a responsible elite
Yana Tsodikova, Pavel Chebotarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Modeling society with a responsible elite
Within the framework of the ViSE (Voting in a Stochastic Environment) model, we examine the dynamics in a society, part of which can be considered an elite. The model allows us to analyze the influence of social attitudes, such as collectivism, individualism, altruism on the well-being of agents. The dynamics is determined by collective decisions and changes in the structure of society, in particular, by the formation of groups of cooperating agents. It is found that the presence of a "responsi…

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 19: How would you describe the theme of the whole of your œuvre?
Describing everything is hardly possible, especially when the theme shifts with time.
Still, if I had to pick something, I'd say individualism, humanism, rebellion and justice. Systems crunching people in the cogs persist to this day. I never truly "outgrew" it - and, see…