Anti-Vaxers, Right-Wing Conservatives, Libertarians

Inspired by this headline in the eGuardian 1/28/2020:

Canada truckers’ vaccine protest spirals into calls to repeal all public health rules

Anti-Vaxers, Right-Wing Conservatives, Libertarians:  The current expression of these ideologies are examples of individualism run amok. 

What is individualism.  It is not simply "man is the measure of all things", rather, it is that "the individual person doing the measuring is the measure of all things".  This perspective is also expressed in the phrase, saying, command, "every man for himself".  This is not exactly Hobbes's description of "a war of all against all" (I suspect that they would just rather be left alone than interact, even through war -- drone war is perfect for them).

Alternately, Canadian truckers, et. al. are so divorced from any feeling of community in relation to the rest of the population -- to other Canadians -- that the interests of other Canadians is perceived as the imposition of unwanted control by a "foreign" entity or government.  

Or related, the truckers feel powerless to influence laws that control their actions, and that these feelings of powerlessness have come to dominate their consciousness so that they will take action based upon these beliefs (does abortion resonate here? To be a pregnant trucker who can't afford to raise a kid on her own yet.)

And yet, can you blame them that they are so afraid?

Cognitively, their ideology, psychology, metaphysics, epistemology, ontology places them exclusively at the center of the universe and are therefore unique and on this aspect, cannot be comprehended and is therefore alone.  

Of course, another problem is that they are so much a part of the machine -- cut to: Charlie Chaplin in *Modern Times* -- they cannot influence the levers of power since they cannot act collectively since they have been following the individualist playbook.  

And while this playbook may have served them, everybody, well for a while, things have changed.  From the 1930's through the 1950's there is labor organized to apply power for the working man.  The McCarthy Era began the war that has been going on against the American worker since. [This is not to say that workers in the rest of the world have been exploited as a weapon to wage a war against the American worker.]  This war continues.

it has been won, so far, because it has been able to deliver at the center of power.  The American worker has been content to support its government and culture because they provide enough. Borders, distance and culture mean that anyone outside those boundaries do not figure into any calculations governing my, the INsider's, behavior or fate -- unless those OUTsiders significantly object. 

To sum up:  Our unhappiness comes from out ability to outrun our wisdom.  We are creating an environment that we are not adapted to in evolutionary terms.  It is not so much the material environment -- though, there too -- as the psychological or informational or complexity of the environment.  But we respond to this environment on the basis [or as programmed] of our evolution so far.  And the environment in which we evolved was the norm for at least nine out of ten humans (90%) less than 300 years ago.  But today, perhaps 90% of humans are exposed to an informational environment that would have been inconceivable 300 years age.

1. Evolution occurs at the species level, not at the individual level.

2. Humans evolved as a social species.  [Language]    

3. Traits evolved to support sociability.

    a. Non-social traits are supported to the extent that they support are supported by society.

    b. Long-term consequences are harder to deal with.

    c. Loners have less of a chance surviving than sociables.

    d.