Sublime

Parmi sa nombreuse progéniture, fruit d’une formidable fécondité, elle sélectionnait le meilleur. Les hommes, l’imitant, ne procédaient pas autrement quand ils élevaient des chevaux de course ou cultivaient des concombres. Sans doute un démiurge eût-il pu imaginer une meilleure méthode, mais les créatures de ce Cosmos particulier devaient s’accommo

“The behavior of the individual social insect evolved with reference to what it contributes to the community, whereas the genetic fitness of a human being depends on how well it can individually use the society. We have become insect-like only by extreme contractual arrangements.”

Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot

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What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.

They accepted that the interests of society were above that of the individual. They did not believe in the unlimited individualism of the Americans.