Re: Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?

Lance wrote:
Skraedder wrote:

This article claims that it is the 'mass media' that are responsible.
They may well be part of the problem, the 'educational' system must be
another. It's ripe material for conspiracy theory, though. The dystopic
books that I've mentioned posit wicked people deliberately arranging
things that way. Has that happened in Yankland, or has it come about by
a process of unguided degeneration?


It's probably come about by evolution. Ironic.

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de Toqueville, long ago (1820s), commented on the propensity of
American culture to erode true individuality and eccentricity and to
impose a mass conformity upon Americans. What is new?

Very little!

It seems strange to claim that it is 'culture' (or, more probably, 'Culture', the personification) that is responsible for this.

People usually claim to be keen on 'their' 'culture' as an identifying part of them, rather than as an oppressor.


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