I'm not arguing that
> arranged marriages (or collectivist values in general)
> are better in some universal sense; I'm just saying that
> people have lived happy lives in stable human societies
> without glorifying individuality the way we do.
>
> Miles
^^^^^^^
CB: Yea, "individualism" is too polluted by bourgeois usage. Ronald Reagan said "We hold the sacredness of the individual". Yea sure, but they mess over billions of individuals.
I think the left should adopt a new term like "personality", just to distinguish ourselves from the bourgeois usage. We are for the full and all around development of personality.