Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpcuhb!hpindda!gberg From: gberg@hpindda.HP.COM (Greg Berg) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: I am unique Message-ID: <7470002@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 9 Mar 88 22:40:35 GMT References: <12468@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 17 > / laba-4an@web2d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) / 10:42 am Mar 8, 1988 / > Individualism is a frame of mind. If we want to be joined to a group, we'll > join a group. That doesn't make us any less individuals, unless you begin to > identify with yourself as being part of this newsgroup (which would be sort > of scary... alt.individualism T-shirts, etc). > > Therein lies the major conflict of individualism... > > When you start identifying yourself with individualism, aren't you now a > part of a group? > > -- > "Man, I want to be an INDIVIDUAL... just like those dudes over there!" ---------- Why are all you individuals huddling together in this notes group? Anyone rightous enough to EARN the label individualist would insist on forming their own group- allowing noone else to read or post to it ;-)