Aaron Williams
5- 28-17
Blog 2
Today in my blog I’m going to focus on
the rugged individualism fallacy. Within the blog I’m going to talk about the
benefits and flaws of this fallacy.
After gathering an understanding about
this fallacy I never pictured how many of us was raised on this fallacy, not from
being force to live this way but by the structure of our society in the United
States. Growing up your parents, family members, and peers also says/pushes you
to be the best person you can be. For an example, if you’re gifted in academics
or in sports you always here the saying “practice make perfect” or “hard work
beat talent any day when talent doesn’t work to better themselves”. These
quotes basically sum up what the rugged individualism fallacy is about.
Now by having a general understanding about
this fallacy, now lets dig deeper into this fallacy. In America we are an individualism
country, which mean we consider and put our needs first before we consider the
next person. This trait is developed at
a young age from what we are taught. We are taught to be independent,
responsible, and think for ourselves, this is part of the rugged individualism
fallacy. The flaws in this method is, say if you’re going through hard times
and need a shoulder to lean on to get through this hard times, you want have
people by your side because doing your life you lived only for yourself and
showed folks you don’t need them. Also you want be able to establish good
friendships because you will be looked at by your peers as selfish, self-centered
this wouldn’t allow you to build trust and loyalty amongst other people.
Another part of this fallacy is the
demand of being unique. What it mean by being unique is the matter of being a
certain way where no one can relate to you. Even though you may not be a unique
person society wants you to. We must be able to establish and separate ourselves
from other so we want be classified or seen by others as the average person or
the same as everyone else. The flaw in this method is forcing people to be
something their not. Being unique isn’t a common trait that everyone is born
with and making people fill left out or not feeling accepted by not being
unique, put a strain on society by costing
stress and depression.
Another part of this fallacy we are
taught at a young age is focusing on our strength and abilities so we can
improve ourselves. Also we must work in areas to improve our weakness. I don’t
see a flaw in this part of the method. I totally agree with these one because
in order to improve we must work on our strengths but to become a well-rounded
person we must work on our weakness too. I can relate to this by using sports
as my example. In sports our coaches always tell us to practice our strengths
because when times get tuff you must rely on your strengths and techniques to
take over. Working on your weakness will allow you to make plays that you didn’t
think was possible.
This fallacy hit home on the way I think
and grew up. I wouldn’t say I am an individual because I grew up on respecting
others, listening, and never think your way is the only way of doing something.
But I was taught to put yourself first because people are evil and will cross
you out at the end of the day. So being by yourself isn’t a bad thing you just
got to know how to balance working with others and yourself out.
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