Be individuals, solitary and selfish, is the message. Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature. Be separate. Do not be a social animal.

— Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)

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