What is being advocated in the name of the University of Kent is a top-down attempt to manufacture collectivism. Such artificially sweetened bubblegum collectivism is the complete opposite of genuinely collectivist grass-roots movements.
This may interest you:
https://www.coronababble.com/post/the-dubious-ethics-of-nudging-we-urgently-need-an-independent-inquiry
What is being advocated in the name of the University of Kent is a top-down attempt to manufacture collectivism. Such artificially sweetened bubblegum collectivism is the complete opposite of genuinely collectivist grass-roots movements.
I agree with most of your points, but I bristle at the use of “collectivist” to describe grass-roots movements. “Collectivism” in any form, whatever its guise, represents a threat to individual liberty and is used to justify totalitarian measures in the name of the public good. It sacrifices the objective reality of the individual life in exchange for an abstraction that surreptitiously siphons off power to those ruling the collective.
The grass-roots movement that we are witnessing now in reaction to tyranny is not collectivist but deeply individualistic as free-thinking, independent people are raising their voices together not as part of a monolithic collectivist movement but rather as individuals demanding the preservation of our personal liberties and lives.
What is being advocated in the name of the University of Kent is a top-down attempt to manufacture collectivism. Such artificially sweetened bubblegum collectivism is the complete opposite of genuinely collectivist grass-roots movements.
This may interest you:
https://www.coronababble.com/post/the-dubious-ethics-of-nudging-we-urgently-need-an-independent-inquiry
Thanks for the link, Roland!
I agree with most of your points, but I bristle at the use of “collectivist” to describe grass-roots movements. “Collectivism” in any form, whatever its guise, represents a threat to individual liberty and is used to justify totalitarian measures in the name of the public good. It sacrifices the objective reality of the individual life in exchange for an abstraction that surreptitiously siphons off power to those ruling the collective.
The grass-roots movement that we are witnessing now in reaction to tyranny is not collectivist but deeply individualistic as free-thinking, independent people are raising their voices together not as part of a monolithic collectivist movement but rather as individuals demanding the preservation of our personal liberties and lives.