but at this point the left seems to me to be dominated by people who are really concerned with Following Rules and specifically people who are very concerned with the development and feeding of their own internal Cop's so what happened eh
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i think this kind of at least purported anticonformity line maybe started to wane in the bush years or perhaps the 90s it had gone mainstream by then of course. i remember watching government PSAs about how it was cool to be different, by the early 90s
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in this period in time you could have a cartoon show character whose personality was being an antisocial snot hero. i offer up Sonic the Hedgehog and nintendos original conception of Linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfXxkHrIBM …
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one story that you could tell is that once the left gained cultural ascendency it was actually quite inimical to its interests to promote individualism compare the Strange New Respect the cultural right gets for individualist arguments whenever theyre gonna lose on somethingpic.twitter.com/UwcMWBwqTf
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another one is that its some kind of generational cycle boomers rebelled in individualist language against the stifling conformity of the 50s when everyone watched the same three tv stations
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but then atomization continued apace and soon there was no Establishment left to rebel against. we can all swear now and look at porn. Oh No perhaps The Establishment, Long Divided, Must Unite
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anyway i dont pretend to have a clear explanation for this but as someone who grew up when the left did at least superficially argue from an individualist perspective i feel personally betrayed and i resent everyone who has contributed to this
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Question Authority was our mantra circa '81.
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It depends on the second order derivative of their political power. When their power growth decelerates, they literally turn conservative. For example, Argentinian pro-choice memes are funny and extremely subversive. I cannot imagine that sort of thing would fly in the US.
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I don’t know that a dramatic change in attitude is needed to explain this. A problem now is that it’s very easy to maintain ignorance of the de facto power/social capital one wields. Everyone seems invested in a model of themselves as David facing down some oppressive Goliath.
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Such models appeal because they excuse failure (I was fighting a freakin’ giant!) and make the rare success all the more amazing, and in the era of meticulously curated outrage, evidence for any such model is trivial to come by. No one ever has to *feel* like a cop.
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