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I know you've already discussed this amongst yourselves but I think the problem of the "uncaring mass" hasn't been adequately discussed. I say "uncaring mass" because this is precisely the term which is appropriate when defining "the masses" with respect to any particular man who (it is said) makes it up. Now, this mass is motivated to action by forces which have been called telluric by some but I will say that the mass is motivated by memes, some of them wild, some of them not. This mass does not inherently value any of its parts, the memes which infest its collective consciousness allow for nothing higher than economic good and the economy cares nothing for individual failures (as they were either not economically viable from the outset, or their laziness - that is to say their economic sinfulness - made them so). To be a "good person" in this way is to be a good organ (or maybe just a tissue or a cell) in the beast of the economy.
To support such a mass with ones activity necessarily requires a level of ignorance, reckless indifference or true madness. It would be good to take a knife to the collective consciousness and carve out a spot for oneself and one's kind, but how would one do so? Without the ability to shape culture and keep it from the all-consuming madness of the mass, the globalizing, monopolizing, economic consciousness, there can be no hope of building anything that will last. So then a man could build himself a homestead and hope to simply ignore the wolf at his door, but he will die in obscurity with his works lasting no longer than he does. Such a disconnected man should not hope to find a wife with which to start a family, for wifes are nearly extinct (if not already gone), women are thoroughly poisoned and girls are given over to this economic globalism and far out of reach of a low-economic-value man. So then his path to cultural creation cannot be made through his genes, perhaps his memes? Yes, perhaps he could make friends, but how could a man make friends who does not participate in the economy? In a world where the disconnected are hermits this is impossible. Yet they can be nothing but hermits, for all facets of socialization have been combined with economy.
I saw that there was talk of staying connected and trying to do good that way. That is the most mad thing of all. The modern world is a screaming signal, a repeating pulse at extremely high frequencies. Everything in this economic world is constantly regurgitating its memes down the throats of its unwitting, unknowing or uncaring actors. A man, or a group of men, cannot possibly hope to turn the beast from it's path unless they somehow came into the power to shut down the signal, but that would require extreme power, power that no man even wields now. I'd be surprised if any existing, shadowy cabal had that power. If you think that such a drastic action isn't necessary, well, I'd put forward that Homo Economicus is fundamentally incompatible with Man, that the former is a misanthropic animate corpse which may take kindly to your kindness, but will only reciprocate in so far as it is economically viable. There is no accounting for dignity, honor or any other meme which is necessary to build a society worth living in (or really, any society properly defined) for all those memes will always be lensed by what is or is not economically viable. That is the nature of Homo Economicus, the guts of the beast of global economy.
It is no simple thing to build (or rebuild) a culture. It, like all things, seems to require power: Power that users do most assuredly not have. A culture requires a cult and a cult requires cultists, but assembling cultists seems to be something serendipitous, or maybe just something only some people can do. There is no other way. The proliferation of your philosophy is irrelevant, all the western world has access to all the great philosophers and the collective consciousness has not been improved one bit for it.
All a man can really do is his best to live with dignity, a dignity Homo Economicus does not possess in the slightest.