Zohran Mamdani announces his seizure of power over New York City in a formal ceremony promising to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
The “warmth of collectivism” or perhaps, more aptly, the furnaces of collectivism, especially of the kind of movements that Mamdani is aligned with, claimed over 100 million lives from Russia to China to Latin America.
‘Rugged individualism’… a whole lot less.
New York City, the actual one, not the collective of Mamdani’s fellow radical trust fund hipsters and Indian Muslims that selected him, was a city of rugged individuals. Individualism, sometimes bizarre and eccentric, was the hallmark of New York City. That’s why you have quotes like “New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States”. It’s what made walking down the street in the city interesting. Collectives aren’t interesting, they’re ominous. They strip away individualism leaving zombies who think and talk the same way, and who will attack you if you differ from them any way.
That’s what Communism or Islam do. Whether it’s the ‘Homo Sovieticus’ or Mamdani’s fellow Muslim mobs murdering non-Muslims in Bangladesh, that’s collectivism. There’s a reason that the current most talked about show, Pluribus, is about the struggle between the collective and the individual.
Mamdani announced that his regime will be about imposing the collective to stamp out the individual. But that’s what the Left is.
