I was born in the 80's, so I can't speak from experience, but from the history I've read, it seems like before Reagan, Democrats and Republicans pretty much agreed that, as a citizen of this country, you had responsibilities to other people. Feels like since Reagan the "fuck you, muh rights!" crowd has been getting bigger and louder. #Politics #FuckRepublicans #ToxicIndividualism #CountryFirst #DemocratsAreBetterThanTheAlternative

@RL_Dane
> 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

#Mastodon isn’t the answer to corporate controlled #socialmedia. Social media is a #mentalhealth cancer. All social media has done is reenforce #loneliness, disengagement, #toxicindividualism, and help accelerate the destruction of the #socialcontract. You are mainlining the worst of American imperialism straight into your brain, whether you think you’re oppose it or not. This is what #capitalists want. The only answer is to stop using it.

@VulpineAmethyst
This is the #Left version of #ToxicIndividualism