ABSTRACT
The thesis of sociality never claimed that we are loudspeakers for society at large or for some segment of it. To be human is to be individual; the individuality of each self is intrinsic to its nature. Selfishness, self-indulgence, and the rest are seen as wrong because they violate an authoritative command. Pride, as the setting up of oneself and what one finds in oneself to rule one's life, becomes the original, primal sin. When one speaks for oneself and not for some group, one speaks for one's subjectivity. Descartes made his center nameless; that which looked out of those eyes at that face, became the bemused subject of all predicates. From the point of view of the individual with a life decision in mind, identity and self-interest are defined in terms of a self-conception. Quirkiness consists in the individual quirks, the quirky sum of those quirks, and sum of the nonquirky characteristics of the self.
