Little Dog Lost by Steve Boreman for April 14, 2013

Finally Little Doggie, suppertime . . .

I’ll bet you can go home again.

So the moral is that if you don’t want to share the fruits of YOUR LABORS with those who just want a free handout, that you’re on your own?

Sweet Mother of Pearl!

Lets have a strip about the Little Red Hen, for a bit of balance here.

It is better and easier to work in and with the community than to go it alone silly chicken.

MMM! I smell Sunday chicken dinner.

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone . . . -Joni Mitchell

Time to shake and bake.

It is a measure of how far collectivism permeates our culture that so many people believe that advocating independence and individualism requires you to live on a desert island or at least to make your own shoes.

Mr. Boreman … Thanks for “…sticking your neck out !”

Tell that to all the snot-nosed Calvins out there.

Maybe I’m just crazy, but I thought a ‘collective’ was made up of ‘individuals’. I also thought that was what pschearer was saying.

Your statement shows you are another example of how deeply collectivism is embedded in people’s minds and our culture. You can no longer think of humans as anything but a member of a species, a cell in an organism, a cog in a machine — not as an individual but only as a member of a tribe or race or class or some other grouping that tries to obliterate the identity of individuals. That’s the source of racism, extermination camps, and World Wars, just for starters.

As for the “century” claim, perhaps that might be true for the use of the word “individualism”, but the idea is written all over the Declaration of Independence and the Enlightenment, with roots going back to the eternal struggle between Plato and Aristotle.

Although Jkiss’s summary leaves out important issues, he/she is right, and I thank him/her.