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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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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I remember some Adam Cutis film abt how the individualism of the 60s led to Reagan, even tho they seem opposed
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Also, Puritans were individualists, the cool Anglicans were conformists
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im not sure i believe this after reading albions seed
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Scott has a fantastic review that is a good substitute for the book as a whole https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/ …
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