Sasha Latypova on Substack: "Bullseye, again! Collectivist ideologies are designed to perpetuate the average. That’s why I am weary of the unironic use of the word “humanity”. There is no humanity, there are individual humans who must strive to improve themselves, to get away from the cancer of average."

Bullseye, again! Collectivist ideologies are designed to perpetuate the average. That’s why I am weary of the unironic use of the word “humanity”. There is no humanity, there are individual humans who must strive to improve themselves, to get away from the cancer of average.

The opposite of excellence is not ‘bad’, but average. This is one of the key distinctions that makes modern civilian and martial collectives so fundamentally different. Collectivist ideologies such as socialism, communism and of course, the most insidious, democracy, are all the politics of “average”. They encourage people to trade excellence and personal potential for a ‘share in a faceless whole’ in which they are merely cogs.

Aleksandar Svetski

Nov 24

5:16 PM