Doctrines like individualism, human rights and personal freedom are imperfect theories, or even adverse to the best human interests overall.

1. Paul Yang

2. One of the greatest human limitations besides our
short life span, is our self-centeredness. We think
first and often only from personal perspective, and
we act first and often only for personal interests.
But mankind is not always like that. When
humanity is in its infancy and childhood, we rely
heavily on each other for survival, everything is
shared. Cooperation, selflessness and Good
Sameritanism are our first nature.

3. Doctrines like individualism, human rights and
personal liberty appear much later in human
history, and are still imperfect theories, or in many
ways even adverse to the best human interests
overall, as attested by greed, selfishness, fierce
competition, inequality, polarization, monopolist
and fraudulent business practice, the concentration
of wealth in the hands of a few, the spread of
pornography and violence, the influence of money
on politics, the destruction of the environment, the
alienation of marriage, the disintegration of family,
homosexualism, and gun culture, etc.

4. Mankind is still in its adolescence too self-centric
to understand the relation between personal
interests and communal interests.
Perhaps the most important lessons tango teaches
us are that we are interdependent rather than
independent, that our well-being is inseparable
from that of others, that we cannot be happy
unless all are happy, That cooperation and sharing
serve us better than competition, that human
rights are the communal rights of the mankind as
a species, not just personal rights, and that self-
discipline and self-control are important attributes
of what make us human.

5. Tango tells the other side of the human story. It
awakens the better part of the humanity in us, I
hope, and suggests a way for us to live together in
peace and harmony through cooperation,
generosity in spirit, loftiness of purpose, and
altruism.
Wherever we go and dance, tango always reminds
us that love, despite our many limitations, is what
holds us together as a couple, people, nation, and
species.

6. More on this at yangningyuan.blogpost.com.