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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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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The background for the stifling conformity thing was the suburbs! Kids would grow up in suburbia, find it excruciatingly boring and go insane and form emo bands. Now everybody lives their life on social media and is differently insane.
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Individual vs collective value focus is one of the big themes of the spiral dynamics lens - I don't recall if you've dug into that? I find it often v useful
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i think I ought to consider it more, yeah. kind of fallen out of the discourse space
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30s and 40s: Roosevelt institutes the New Deal, 50s: Eisenhower builds highways, Macmillan and co run a Keynseian econcomy, 60s: LBJ and the great society, 70s: Nixon founds the EPA, almost does a UBI and institutes massive price controls
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Is left vs right the correct way to think abt this?
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