Flying Chair - The Monday Morning Memo

“Rugged individualism is the essence of America.

It is also the reason that we, as a people, are isolated and lonely.

Our focus on personal, individual success is the reason we are disconnected from one another.

Terrence Real put it this way, ‘Individualism is not a natural fact; it has a history. In American Colonial days, society was communalism on a small scale. It was about farms and small towns and small villages. When you lived face to face with your neighbor, it was a palpable reality that the good of all was the good for each of us.’

‘Civic virtue was the force that went beyond individual gratification. It was part of being a civilized person that you had a sense of civic virtue. With the Industrial Revolution, and the myth of the self-made man, all of that went by the wayside and it was each man for himself.'”

- Roy H. Williams

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