I don't think you can post a "damn, yo, it's been forever" if you've only posted once....
As for your actual post: I think we, as a society, place a hell of a lot of value on individuality in theory. There's the whole image of the rugged American doin' it on his own. Fighting against Communism for 50 years helped that a bit I think, as we needed to program our youth to dislike collectivism, etc.... That said, I think you're pretty much right about the lack of it in actual practice. I don't think that that's society's fault though, but rather just a basic animal instict. Conform and you won't be thrown out of the pack, simple.
Good to see you posting again. Do it more often... and convince Sasha to restart his. Heh. Heh. He....
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As for your actual post: I think we, as a society, place a hell of a lot of value on individuality in theory. There's the whole image of the rugged American doin' it on his own. Fighting against Communism for 50 years helped that a bit I think, as we needed to program our youth to dislike collectivism, etc.... That said, I think you're pretty much right about the lack of it in actual practice. I don't think that that's society's fault though, but rather just a basic animal instict. Conform and you won't be thrown out of the pack, simple.
Good to see you posting again. Do it more often... and convince Sasha to restart his. Heh. Heh. He....
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