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The science historian and author, Naomi Oreskes has argued that the hyper-individualistic attitude of the 70s-80s was a result of the cold war. The US was so an
by meowfly 5y ago
The science historian and author, Naomi Oreskes has argued that the hyper-individualistic attitude of the 70s-80s was a result of the cold war. The US was so anti-communist that anything that smelled of communism/socialism was denounced.
- Florin_Andrei 5y agoThat's kind of what happened to Ayn Rand. She and her family suffered quite a lot from the Communist Revolution. I think she probably had a form of PTSD or similar. The mythology she came up with is so obviously opposite-to-communism-in-every-way (even when it makes no sense). Like someone who almost drowned in the ocean, and then thinks showers are evil.
- ryandrake 5y agoThis is also a theme of Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head [1]. 1: https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/ https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/