It sounds so Maslow, we want to be part of a society, but rather than conforming to the standards of an existing social structure, they create one. Thus smaller more individual specific groups.
I suppose it shows a more self centered nature to modern people. Maybe we feel entitled to be individuals. Or, we think that being unique in some small way gives us esteem within our group. Emotional self gratification.
Perhaps the effect is much like a ball rolling down a hill, if we start down the side of individual entitlement we will tumble down ever faster until we find a cohesive reason to pull ourselves back up.
Then again i am half asleep.
Personal DNA = Reserved Experiencer
I am the King acting as the Fool.
Im undereducated.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. - Samuel Johnson
The vain man does not wish so much to be prominent as to feel himself prominent; he therefore disdains none of the expedients for self deception and self outwitting. It is not the opinion of others that he sets his heart on, but his opinion of their opinion. - Niezsche
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