Individualism

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Recent evidence suggests that a single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin reduces the drive to seek out rewards, providing evidence for its potential to treat substance use disorders.

https://www.psypost.org/a-single-dose-of-psilocybin-reduces-reward-seeking-behavior-by-altering-inhibitory-brain-cells/

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Liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/liberalism

What are they being freed from? Obviously nature, the divine, culture, and the rules.

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Individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual.

Following the upheaval of the French Revolution, individualisme was used pejoratively in France to signify the sources of social dissolution and anarchy and the elevation of individual interests above those of the collective.

The French aristocratic political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) described individualism in terms of a kind of moderate selfishness that disposed humans to be concerned only with their own small circle of family and friends.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/individualism

In other words, a bourgeois disconnection from the holistic.

I do not see it as a "collective" in the Marxist sense, but the idea that civilization is larger than the individual and like nature, is essential to our survival and the maximization of our efforts.

Without it, whatever good we do vanishes into the void.

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From email:

Individualism = dedicated to the individual, namely maintaining its mental state and fiction-absolute; transcendentalism = dedicated to a realistic outlook and search for a holistic sense of enhancing the transcendentals (good, beautiful, real).