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Moises P Ramirez's avatar

Emergent phenomena: an acting mass is more than the sum of individual agents. Networking, interdependence, social: the herd. Urban shoals.

Individuals, like you and me, like to see things above the constrained individual level. That's liberalism of freedom. Social and personal, both can and must co-exist.

It's not an either/or thing. Hegel, I guess...

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inti's avatar

sure but not. The thing is at a bit more detailed level. “The social” exists, but the premise of liberalism is that if we all do things right to us, and not arming to the rest, it all works out for “the social”. It might be that this is an example that counteracts that.

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Moises P Ramirez's avatar

Yeah!

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