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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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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I would add the huge shift in reception to Catcher in the Rye and other youth fiction in schools. The attrition of coolness in making the angry young man act mandatory.
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I think it simply boils down to 'Liberal' having been a much broader classification at one point than it is now. There was a time when our 'Liberal' institutions allowed for much more diversity of thought, even conventionally abhorrent thought, while 'Conservative' was interested
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yeah this comic right here
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