ok thing i Noticed something while i was cleaning the bathroom (good time to think about things) it seems to me that there used to be an aggressive anti-conformity streak associated with the left. yes it was often lip service and "I want to be different. just like everyone else"
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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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https://youtu.be/wCF3ywukQYA 14 years ago. this was a big proto- meme video before image macros swallowed everything notice the depiction of bland authority against which the girl rebels to...*get some shoes* as a perfect consumerpic.twitter.com/oM4Qm4XEZ9
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remember V for Vendetta? that's what JOKER was going for—but after Team America World Police and Sarah Palin Sharknado and *two terms* of Obama, the State became cool and powerful, and any revanchism from Old White Christian America an /usurpation/ of a coming future.
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