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This is very true. I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism, which is especially prevalent here in #Texas

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Strypey 2y ago

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> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism

Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":

https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445

#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism

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Strypey 2y ago

nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 This is a theme that runs through a lot of the documentary series Adam Curtis does too. The Power of Nightmares and The Trap: What Happened to our Dreams of Freedom are two great examples.

This is a major theme in All Watches Over by Machines of Loving Grace too. Although I think that one is overly influenced by Fred Turner, and his throwing out of counterculture hacker babies with the Silicon Valley capitalist bathwater.