Stephen Yearwood
1 min readOct 8, 2024

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One thing this world needs is an ideology that would further the perspective related in this article while acknowledging, as this article does, the reality of individualism: we humans are separate and independent beings. That makes our propensity to live together in groups more complicated, but that propensity does not diminish individualism.

Liberalism, touting equality and liberty, does to some extent have that potential, but it is not for nothing that it was developed by men and that it created societies that reflect that unhelpful version of 'maleness'. 'Equality' is too malleable of a concept to constrain the self-centered individualism at the core of Liberalism, which--bolstered by 'justice is liberty'--can easily imbue a society with a 'life is a contest of power' mentality (one which can also capture women who get focused on 'success', e.g. 'beating men at their own game'.)

Here's to a New Liberalism, with an other-centered individualism at its core. (Not to be confused in any way with 'neoliberalism'.)

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Stephen Yearwood
Stephen Yearwood

Written by Stephen Yearwood

M.A. in political economy (money/distributive justice) "Please don't confront me with my failures/ I'm aware of them" from "These Days," as sung by Gregg Allman

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