Context, Context, Context

Kelly Brown Douglas suggests that ancient Germanic individualism was an inspiration to the "founding fathers" (Interesting-- I feel like my education suggested our system was modeled after Greco-Roman ideals, not Anglo-Saxon).  I think the dominant modern Western self-understanding and ideology promotes a sense of individualism that (I believe) is essentially false and damaging.  As Catherine Keller notes, discerning and acknowledging our complex interconnections and refuting, in a sense, individualistic ideologies, is important to the work of moving beyond oppressive structures and frameworks.