"As it took hold in twentieth-century America, the Promethean ideal taught that the individual self exists apart from all social ties and relations. Our family, our religious society, our neighborhood and town—these communities don’t constitute one’s identity, because who one truly is exists separate from all of them."
This to me is utter poison. Not my guy at all

No

He is criticizing it

oh ok

good

but that quote is still pure poison

no u are stupid, he promotes an authentic state that stems from the will of the people acting together and exists as a means for said people to organise society efficiently for their own well being, whilst simultaneously understanding that existence through reproduction is something of value in of itself and he talks about the ability or lack of in america for young people to make families and have kids, he is philosophically very close to someone like Evola, but i don't expect weebs to understand this. His only problem is potentially that he identifies his group non racially but I am skeptical of that, i don't think someone can be so on point on everything yet believe stupidly that these people who are not like you and breeding with them dilutes your own being or creates less than preferable creatures for offspring can be identified as "your people" or that you would even want to identify with them.

How is it poison? He's saying that the idea that the individual is disassociated from society is bad

''Because what Americans need in this century is not less fellowship, but more; not less family, not less belonging, not weaker bonds of love and association, but stronger ones. Forging those bonds anew is one of the urgent callings of our time.

Behind the staggering record of deaths of despair is an epidemic of personal loneliness and isolation—driven by the loss of community.

Researchers have been documenting it for years. A major study completed in 2018 found that almost half of respondents said they feel alone sometimes, or always. Forty-three percent said they often feel their relationships are not meaningful. And only half said they have genuine in-person interactions on a daily basis.

The results were, again, far worse among the young. Americans aged 18 to 22, the so-called Generation Z, were the most likely to be lonely, with more than half of respondents in this age group exhibiting multiple indicators of isolation.

The decline of community proves to be key.

Young people are participating less in faith organizations, less at school, have fewer friends. They are even leaving organized sports.

Meanwhile, scholars like Robert Putnam have amply documented the decline in social participation across all age cohorts.

Those Americans who came of age during the twin catastrophes of the Great Depression and World War were passionate members of clubs and associations—from the PTA to the Red Cross to the Rotary Club and bowling leagues. But participation in groups like those has plunged.

And it’s not just civic associations that are suffering decay. Church membership has plummeted, down nearly twenty percent in just as many years.

And then there’s the plight of the family. No community is more consequential than the family, and no perhaps no community is today under greater strain.''

i fkn hate u

u spam this after i write my epic essay

Kek

oh basically says what I have been saying all along.

He mentioned a British Monk who debated Augustine of Hippo in his Speech

yes he's very agreeable obviously

He must have an IQ of 180

How many Senators would reference a 4th century Heretic Theologian?.

And Rosseau and Voltaire?

Are you referring to Augustine as a heretic?

Anyone who is smart

And treat them as negatives

@Epic Style No

The noble savage and Candide

Pelagius

Ok good

I was gonna say

The best of all possible worlds

Augustine motivates me to stop cooming

He was a sinner but he overcame it

Antidepressants motivate me to stop cooming

I motivate myself to stop cooming

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so who's gonna actually go to church and remedy by filling in the social gaps he explains?

you swapped one source of dopamine for another

you should live in perpetual misery like a man

Me @Eternal Entropy

Antidepressant is serotonin

that's the key difference of big brains and big doers

ebic!

I need to go to confession for the many times I coomed

kick ass my dudes