Jim wrote:
in a fruitless response to insults, I mentioned the existence of different kinds of individualism. Perhaps people will find the following list to be useful:
add 6-dialectical -All action by a biological organism is individual action, interaction between concrete environmental situations and concrete individually distinctive propensities. -All groups of individual organisms act, in a statistically average way, according to their species-normative behavior. To put it otherwise: -No bee is an individual, all are but units within the hive. -Every worker bee forages and gathers individually, adapting individually to the contingent circumstances it encounters. Or, as Trotsky put it: "Everyone acts differently when tickled by a feather. When touched by a red-hot poker they all behave identically." Shane Mage "This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
