Key to Survival: Individualism vs. Collectivism | Mifleget Hamachshavot

What are the ultimate benefits to serve the collective?

Israeli leading intellectual, Dr. Micah Goodman and Efrat S. Rosenberg, both also hosts to Israel’s top hit Mifleget Hamachshavot podcast, recently left Israel for the first time since October 7 to speak to audiences in London about the current realities in the Middle East, the political situation in Israel, delving into the weakness, the strengths, and, most importantly, to uncover the profound ideas that lie beneath the surface that many of us may miss.

Watch full lecture here:
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[dewilderdbetter]

Dr Goodman, I have tears in my eyes listening to you explicating the basic nature of man of INDIVIDUALISM, which I myself have been preaching since that fateful evening in San Francisco 60 years ago when I sat across the room from Ayn Rand and watched the tendrils of her cigarette smoke--along with my own-- float to the ceiling as I lost myself in her articulation of the philosophy of RATIONAL SELF-INTEREST, which inevitably redounds to the benefit of the COLLECTIVE, as has so abundantly been demonstrated in Israel. Prominent now on my bucket list is to someday meet you and shake your hand. Shalom and Hatikvah, Sir! (PS: Though I'm an American, since '85, I'm a qualified IDF paratrooper and wear those wings proudly.)