individualism

66:8.1In look­ing back over the long ca­reer of Cali­gas­tia, we find only one out­stand­ing fea­ture of his con­duct that might have chal­lenged at­ten­tion; he was ul­train­di­vid­u­al­is­tic. He was in­clined to take sides with al­most ev­ery party of protest, and he was usu­ally sym­pa­thetic with those who gave mild ex­pres­sion to im­plied crit­i­cism. We de­tect the early ap­pear­ance of this ten­dency to be rest­less un­der au­thor­ity, to mildly re­sent all forms of super­vi­sion. While slightly re­sent­ful of se­nior coun­sel and some­what restive un­der su­pe­rior au­thor­ity, nonethe­less, when­ever a test had come, he had al­ways proved loyal to the uni­verse rulers and obe­di­ent to the man­dates of the Con­stel­la­tion Fa­thers. No real fault was ever found in him up to the time of his shame­ful be­trayal of Uran­tia.

70:2.18Mil­i­tarism is au­to­cratic and cruel—sav­age. It pro­motes so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion among the con­querors but dis­in­te­grates the van­quished. In­dus­tri­al­ism is more civ­i­lized and should be so car­ried on as to pro­mote ini­tia­tive and to en­cour­age in­di­vid­u­al­ism. So­ci­ety should in ev­ery way pos­si­ble fos­ter orig­i­nal­ity.

48:7.2927. Prog­ress de­mands de­vel­op­ment of in­di­vid­u­al­ity; medi­ocrity seeks per­pet­u­a­tion in stan­dard­iza­tion.