This me attitude s*** is affecting everything from the workplace to school to f***ing sports and video games bro and it’s f***ing sad to watch. Sports not even about team succes no more it’s about individual players putting up numbers. Niggas be crying playing TEAM death match or capture the flag or some s*** and get mad when they get deranked cause they felt like they “carried” the team and still lost. This individual s*** is disgusting and been getting worse how the f*** we change it

people are gonna tell you you're being dramatic or applying it to insignificant things but you're right

I agree, American society has become only more individualistic over the years and its only causing more issues for everyone in the long run. People are becoming more isolated, lonely, etc. it sucks man

Americans are selfish

Of what the last 5 years have shown, they want what’s best for them instead of what’s best for everyone. We are selfish animals who only do good when it benefits them

They don’t care if they hurt other sin the process as long as they can get away with it

the only way for it to change is for everything to fall apart. we need forced sacrifice (war, natural disaster, etc) and then when we rebuild the cycle will start again

Nothing makes you miss individualism more than living in a collectivist society ime

you’re right, we should adopt a more social structure for society

instead of focusing on the creation of capital for the individual through competition, we should focus on the creation of social well-being for the community through cooperation

i wonder what those ideologies are called

OP's team mates doesn't want to play obj got him saying smh america

americans only think in two extremes and it’s evident in this very post

imo individualism isn't a bad thing. It's just completely out of whack in the U.S.

This pandemic showed how insanely anti-collectivist our population is as a whole. There's a balance between a Borg collective and "hogs out brothers gubmint and scientivists can't tell me what to do or think."

The strong silent type

Man they be going around stacking kills and getting points and we end up losing and they wanna say “trash team” and talk s*** like they didn’t have 2 caps with 43 kills and think they supposed to get rewarded? Hell no

Socialism don’t have nothing to do with what I’m talking about u don’t have to be this individualistic in a capitalist society so relax

Yeah you're right

it does. Adam Smith and Karl Marx both explicitly laid out the framework of late stage capitalism as being fiercely individualistic and that having effects in collective psychology due to years of conditioning for competition and subservience. This came from both the side of support and of criticism

Today Smith’s reputation rests on his explanation of how rational self-interest in a free-market economy leads to economic well-being. It may surprise those who would discount Smith as an advocate of ruthless individualism that his first major work concentrates on ethics and charity. In fact, while chair at the University of Glasgow, Smith’s lecture subjects, in order of preference, were natural theology, ethics, jurisprudence, and economics, according to John Millar, Smith’s pupil at the time. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith wrote: “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others and render their happiness necessary to him though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”1

This is a worldwide problem, not just America.

“We are all one race, the human race.”

Time for communisim

But it does not have to be that’s my point. They looked to change instead of looking for change in the system. It can be diffrent but don’t gotta be changed completely bro

the current system is only stable if it’s individualistic

if its not individualistic then it’ll either return to form or transform entirely

unless you want syndicalism which is worker-run capitalism

overall economic systems are the root of societal psychology because it’s the primary reason that we as people communicate with each other regardless of ideology at this point in technology and society. so depending on the form there, effects come into other sectors afterwards

Very true post.

Most people won't see it yet. We're gonna have to sacrifice part of what makes us individuals if we're going to truly evolve as a species. The "progress" we've been witnessing in recent history is very much DEvolution in many regards.

1000%

Absolutely

It's a sad thing to see. We are doomed to be miserable living like this

the immortal science of Marxism

its just insane to me how so many americans think helping your fellow countrymen is somehow socialism/communism