Greetings, Ron --
I guess what I have difficulty in understanding is that how
people who are devout individualists reject multiculturalism.
It seems to me be a bit of a conflict of interest.
I can understand the seeming paradox where individuals confront each other
on a one-to-one basis over issues (as in this forum). But any kind of
"culturism" is a collective consensus. A group of free-minded people is
viable only so long as its members agree to conduct themselves in a manner
benefiting the group as a whole. When individuals band together to
establish a social order, such as a representative republic, the "moral
code" of that society typically accommodates the majority of its members.
This Nation's Founders were sufficiently enlightened to draft a constitution
limiting the powers of government to maximize individual freedom in matters
of religion, commerce, and public expression.
For a nation to survive and prosper, it is essential that its founding
values, language, social mores, and cultural heritage be preserved against
foreign influences that would denigrate its sovereignity. This isn't to
suggest that other cultures are "morally inferior", that we should be
intolerant of alien social concepts and practices, or that our social
interraction must be bound by "convention". Rather, it's the idea that the
values and traditions of our nation's history are indigenous to our culture,
and deviating from them in deference to egalitarian, globalist or
multicultural ideologies can only weaken and demean the principles this
nation stands for.
I think your quoted statement (from Bork?) expresses this nationalistic
philosophy quite clearly:
"Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook
that
stresses independence and self-reliance. Individualists promote the exercise
of one's goals and desires, while opposing most external interference upon
one's choices, whether by society, the state, or any other group or
institution.
Individualism is opposed to collectivism or statism, which stress that
communal,
community, group, societal, or national goals should take priority over
individual
goals. Individualism is also opposed to any tradition, religion, or other
form of
external moral standard being used to limit an individual's choice of
actions."
Why do you find this a "conflict of interest"?
Best regards for the new year,
Ham
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