Individuality, or why every kid should be told to be a good drone

Mar 29, 2009 01:08

In modern American culture right after two greatest values that are proclaimed to be celebrated the most -- "freedom" (whatever kind of freedom it is supposed to be) and money -- there is "individuality". And just like with first two, overwhelming majority of population lacks everything but the most rudimentary forms of it -- most of people have ( Read more... )

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dk379 March 29 2009, 23:24:25 UTC
i think The System does it so kids do not organize themselves together to throw it down.
This would be so communist, so organized... horrors. HHOS

I am reading "The Rebel Sell" (in Russian translation.)
They note that modern consumer culture (post-industrial, non-uniform) is created exactly by request of individualistic "rebel consumers".

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