The researchers found that most people in countries widely described as collectivist have a specific mutation within a gene regulating the transport of serotonin, a neurochemical known to profoundly affect mood.

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Beyond the simple fact that all medical care falls into the "scarce goods" category, which has all sorts of implication, and beyond the simple fact that taking from some people by force in order to give to someone else (what the ancients once called "plunder") is the fact that al …

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Government Stimulus Spending: Differing Perspectives

By Thomas E. Brewton President Franklin Roosevelt, speaking of the intractable Depression, sourly admitted that Keynesian fiscal policy, in theory, was the simplest thing in the world, but in practice, a disaster.

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The goal of the Democrats' plan for health care reform is coming more and more out into the open: They want to eliminate health insurance. This is the line of attack the Democrats have chosen as they've gone into the August recess:

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Social Collectivism is still alive and well

As everyone knows Sonia Sotomayor is now a Supreme Court Justice. Right on cue liberals cheered while conservatives and libertarians jeered. This was of course expected with a Democratic majority in congress and as far as the ideological makeup goes there wasn't much change.

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After giving the greatest inaugural address of the 20th century (and yes, I am counting John Kennedy's), Ronald Reagan went on to save Social Security.

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Why the American Principles are dead.

The Constitution of the United States of America was the first document to establish a nation on the basis of Political principles, based mainly on John Locke's idea of inalienable rights, that the Government cannot infringe on a person's life, liberty, and property in  …

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Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists," a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream.

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Individualism and Collectivism - The other "left" and "right"

The time is upon us where the terms "right" and "left", "Dem" and "GOP" are somewhat irrelevant. With the dawn of the Obama presidency it seems more appropriate to shape a backdrop that falls into "individualism" and "collectivism".

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Do we want liberty and individual rights or a collectivist state?

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This is a wunderbar argument outlining why individualism is superior to collectivism.

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As usual, Gladwell intelligently captures a larger tendency of thought — the growing appreciation of the power of cultural patterns, social contagions, memes. His book is being received by reviewers as a call to action for the Obama age.

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The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality.

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People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind.

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The Taking Back of America or Give Me Liberty or give me socialism

In The Incremental Slide to Socialism” I attempted to outline how we arrived at this precipice, the edge of liberty or destruction. That article was of course harshly criticized by many of those decidedly left of center on the political spectrum.

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The Incremental Slide to Socialism

Since 1935 when the great communist President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law America has been in an inexorable and incremental slide to Socialism. You can find signs of it in every facet of America's culture today.

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Today's Socialist Propaganda

It has been my belief if you are in a fight it is in your best interest if you know what the other side is thinking. To that effort I have always read as part of my daily news, the opposition, what their talking points are, what are they trying to push today.

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Hillary Clinton has identified a grievous flaw in the contemporary American economy: It leaves "it all up to the individual." This hateful individualism is allegedly driving income inequality and destroying the American Dream.

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The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.

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Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.

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Jaron Lanier, who popularised the virtual reality concept in the early 1980s, says that in rush to forge a new age of collectivism, we risk losing individual identities and dumbing down our understanding of the world.

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The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

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Jaron Lanier is a man of many talents—virtual-reality pioneer, New Age composer, visual artist and artificial-intelligence scientist.

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Can Web 2.0 Save the World?

Each day, here at Newsvine, we scour the vast networks that comprise the World Wide Web, and we contribute what we deem worthy. Additionally, we occasionally compose our own thoughts, and in posting them to this site, we can measure them against the thoughts of our peers.

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Excerpt : WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place  …

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