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A dilemma. Years and years of propaganda towards capitalism have trained people that individualism is the holy grail. Even the american dream basically says t
by mlang23 6y ago
A dilemma. Years and years of propaganda towards capitalism have trained people that individualism is the holy grail. Even the american dream basically says that you as an individual can change things because your perspective is unique.
And now, pieces like this need to be written to re-educate people about group behaviour and essentially socialism. The very thing that america even went to war against.
Weird world. And everyone not agreeing immediately is a heretic. Yeah. Talk about confusing messages.
- MauranKilom 6y ago> essentially socialism In what way did this article allude to anything remotely describable as "socialism"? Literally the only part of the article that is not 100% directed at the individual reader is "(and others)" in the very last paragraph. It is mind-boggling to me that parenthetically mentioning the single word "others" is enough to provoke "but that's socialism" responses. And let me be clear that there is a mile-wide gap between "socialism" and "the opposite of pure individualism".
- mlang23 6y agoWait, "just go with the flow and at least pretend you believe what the masses are supposed to believe" is not socialism? C'mon. The whole "better fake believe then be sorry" thing is pretty much the antithesis to individualism.
- MauranKilom 6y ago> "just go with the flow and at least pretend you believe what the masses are supposed to believe" is not socialism? No, it is not? And - while it certainly doesn't help this discussion to point this out - the irony of you being led to believe so is incredible.