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    4 days ago

    I would slightly correct you there that individualism is the cope people use to explain the atomisation that occurred under our stage of Capitalism- the era of the car (and therefore suburbia), mass media, entertainment direct in your living room, the welfare system and more ending the “old world” that connected capitalism to the past- the effective destruction of the family and “the community”.

    Obviously this is a developing era so what is rising to replace the old system is new, frightening, going through growing pains and is struggling to assert itself.

    Edit: Interestingly, I’m reading Hobsbawm’s Age of Extremes right now and he has the rather poignant observation that Really Existing Socialism was, in its maintenance of cultural norms and traditions, actually far more conservative than anything posited by liberals and conservatives in the capitalist world. No matter how much the liberal democracies wanted to conserve tradition, the capitalist economic system is the most destructive and dispassionate by far.