Tag: Individualism

How Observing American Tourists Taught Me a Brutal Lesson in Hyper-Individualism

A few weeks ago, I saw a lady bawling her eyes out in an Italian airport security queue. At first, I thought perhaps she had just said goodbye to someone she won’t be able to see again for a long time. Or she was really sad to leave the country where you can buy a bottle of decent...

How Observing American Tourists Taught Me a Brutal Lesson in Hyper-Individualism

A few weeks ago, I saw a lady bawling her eyes out in an Italian airport security queue. At first, I thought perhaps she had just said goodbye to someone she won’t be able to see again for a long time. Or she was really sad to leave the country where you can buy a bottle of decent...

An Ill-Fitting Suit? Islam vs Secular Government and Individualism

In part one we saw how Islam’s golden age of open inquiry and science personified by Almohad Spain’s Ibn Tufail and Averroes and the Egyptian historian, geographer polymath, Ibn Khaldun, gave way to an Islamic not invented here syndrome. The West’s teacher, by the 18th century, was...

Hyper-individualism? Maybe pseudo-individualism.

I’m looking at this from a perspective of how capitalism, colonialism, and their Father, Christianity, has basically draped a wet blanket over our thoughts. We can’t comprehend rules and processes outside of our framework. Because we don’t know how to think freely. We are extremely...

Individualism and Grief

Of the many, one of the more difficult moments of the pandemic for me was when standing in the lobby of a medical facility, I was told that my wife couldn’t go into the doctor’s office with me. It was my first meeting with my new surgeon — who would soon be removing cancer cells fr...