Alunanova wrote:
Eostre wrote:
* most "westner" people don't aknowledge or are aware of the entwineness between people and the planet in our everyday life. We are not seperate powers, and we are not seperate worlds. We inherently rely on the lives of others to fullfill our needs - people, animals, nature - to gives us food, clothes, enough freetime to get educated, and so on. We are also a pack species. We rarely survive long alone.
* Yet, individualism, winning and stomping on others to get there, and get individual sucess and so on seems to be some weird ass ideal i never personally have understood or related much to. It doesn't seem to make a lot of people happy either.
* still, some degree of personal care, capability and urgency is important. We have different needs and wants at different times that likely won't be solved if we only cared for the large-scale community.
Hope this made enough sense.
I agree for the most part. Im from such a western country, specifically Norway. Most of us does not have this mindset ur referring to as "stomping on each other" to get further ahead in life, even though we've been brought up in a individualistic society. Speaking from a young western womans perspective on individualism, i think the way it comes across most profound is that; we're not as dependent on our family/parents when growing up (financials and such), therefore we can choose more independently what we want to do with our life, rather than being pressured into doing something because someone else is paying for it.
Most of the youth here are very aware that we have to function as a society and that we are all one.
I am Norwegian as well and I see people lobbying for their own sucesses and self-interest all the time. Function as a society is fun bc we also function by being pressured by big companies and interest so functioning alone can not be the goal. These companies are also built up of individuals agreeing on the discourse. Yet, the "everyday norwegian" may come across much more humbled, not really there up moving any pieces. However, it really is a individual question. Norway surely posess people willing and capable of doing it as much as people everywhere below that stance.