Terence is brushing up against the classical principle of subsidiarity. If we respected this principle, we would make decision making, policy, and law as local as possible, only kicking things up the ladder if the local cannot deal with them effectively.
Hyperindividualism, paradoxically, destroys smaller societies and organizations, because the hyperindividual doesn't want to be tied down by them through commitment. Globalism is the inevitable result of hyperindividualism, because it creates the largest possible space for the hyperindividual to move about, at the cost of the local. And this moving about, because it is so solitary and transient, leads to transient encounters only, like the shallow and empty hookup culture, or increasingly, the entirely solitary porn culture.
The first, most fundamental, and most local of societies is the family. So it should not come as a surprise that when the family suffers, all of society suffers. The more local something is, the more personal, and all friendships and the like are personal. (Marriage is one such friendship, but it is an obstacle to the hyperindividual who's "got to be ME!". Marriage is the foundation of the family, and so naturally, its destruction means the aforementioned destruction of the family.)
We live in a solipsistic age of the supreme, defiled self whose apex is something like a slob glued to his recliner and plugged into a VR headset, a dildo, and a feeding tube.
Hyperindividualism, paradoxically, destroys smaller societies and organizations, because the hyperindividual doesn't want to be tied down by them through commitment. Globalism is the inevitable result of hyperindividualism, because it creates the largest possible space for the hyperindividual to move about, at the cost of the local. And this moving about, because it is so solitary and transient, leads to transient encounters only, like the shallow and empty hookup culture, or increasingly, the entirely solitary porn culture.
The first, most fundamental, and most local of societies is the family. So it should not come as a surprise that when the family suffers, all of society suffers. The more local something is, the more personal, and all friendships and the like are personal. (Marriage is one such friendship, but it is an obstacle to the hyperindividual who's "got to be ME!". Marriage is the foundation of the family, and so naturally, its destruction means the aforementioned destruction of the family.)
We live in a solipsistic age of the supreme, defiled self whose apex is something like a slob glued to his recliner and plugged into a VR headset, a dildo, and a feeding tube.