Our founding mythos of individualism has structured our collective life,
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The answer is that the FDP cherishes a recognisable individualism.
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Hall described adolescence as a period of rebelliousness and individualism.
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It's old versus new, communalism versus individualism, family versus outsiders.
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Excessive individualism has left us distrustful and alone — naked Lockeans.
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It is a radical individualism that leads to vicious tribalism.
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You see less education among women, less hedonism and individualism.
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But neoliberalism's radical individualism has increasingly raised two interlocking problems.
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How has American individualism affected your own life and aspirations?
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The entrenchment of individualism has left people divided and without agency.
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They instilled a culture of individualism and self-reliance in Britons.
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Historians offer various explanations, not least America's strong culture of individualism.
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Bambii: Individualism is not the way to combat any political issue.
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The risks of individualism have been debated since America's earliest days.
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A big part of the reason is American mythology about individualism.
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I prefer the solitary, gravitating toward individualism and outlier-like behaviors.
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Individualism is celebrated, kindness is championed and self-esteem is built.
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Content that celebrates money worship, hedonism or individualism is increasingly removed.
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They are not recommending social disconnection, social exclusion, or rampant individualism.
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A common affliction demonstrates that our feeling of individualism is illusory.
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A common affliction demonstrates that our feeling of individualism is illusory.
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Jeffersonian individualism, which were muted but never resolved even as the New
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American-bred individualism to face down and tame an uncertain world. Wilder's
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Ms Macel says her show is a reaction to "individualism and indifference".
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Individualism was robbing people of their identities because it weakened community bonds.
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With the rise of that hyper-individualism in society, politics got screwed.
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More broadly, our culture's unnatural individualism may yield higher rates of depression.
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I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance.
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Taylor points out that we have to challenge the idea of individualism.
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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism.
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How does that longing for community compare to the longing for individualism?
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"Age of Individualism" comprised two 12-inch records — one at 33 r.p.m.
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"Individualism," in this case, means being single more often, and possibly forever.
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Instead, it frames individualism as the right to refuse service to anyone.
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Americans steeped in individualism have been reluctant to legislate in this way.
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Dayton has always been known as a city of invention and individualism.
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Dayton has always been known as a city of invention and individualism.
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"In a state that values independence and individualism, that makes sense," Kettler said.
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That ethos is gone and it's been replaced by a cult of individualism.
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Those are sentiments that Western fans of individualism and freedom would easily recognise.
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That level of self-obsession and individualism is shamelessly embraced in our culture.
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You conclude, "it will be hard to turn the clock back on individualism".
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Darwinist individualism but, after all the money had been made, also left us
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After all, it's an industry that says it celebrates individualism and self-expression.
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The rise of individualism extends into working life, as Mr Zhang's example suggests.
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"Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle," he warned.
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Like so many other subcultures, goth started out as a quest for individualism.
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Americans rightly value individualism, but that is not enough to protect our liberty.
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But you can't reweave a fragmented nation by appealing just to Lockean individualism.
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One is that societies throughout the world have embraced a culture of individualism.
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As Americans, we are charged with recognizing two conflicting values: individualism and egalitarianism.
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The old Reagan conservatism was economic individualism restrained by social and religious traditionalism.
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They don't have plans to reverse individualism, which atomizes society and destroys community.
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To shift the culture so that it emphasizes individualism less and relationalism more.
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Individualism, free thought, resistance to authority; Satan, he said, represented all of them.
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They see the behavior as a sign of "individualism," a trait they highly value.
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Individualism became the dominant ethos, with self-fulfillment and personal authenticity the highest goods.
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Mr Curtis: What no one saw coming was the effect of individualism on politics.
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So the tension between individualism and communitarianism is a longstanding one in American life.
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It stood for the communitarian we, in opposition to the atomization of neoliberal individualism.
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This era introduced an interesting phenomenon online of extreme individualism within a global collective.
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In one corner are patients, injured American football players and proponents of rugged individualism.
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It's just as reductionist to state that individualism can be traced back to the
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Generationally, millennials are perhaps best known for their legendary individualism and fixation on self.
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Thinking of shopping in this way would also have been bourgeois individualism, of course.
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What follows is a spirited lover's quarrel with the individualism in our national thought.
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It is not the market system and individualism, however, that will save the day.
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And it turns out individualism just doesn't work very well — we're not that species.
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Neoliberalism was a heightened form of individualism that brought great benefits and grave costs.
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Violent rituals are designed to snuff out individualism and encourage subservience to the group.
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He said that tracked with an increased emphasis on individualism and unique child names.
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They're not selling substance — it's fearmongering and puffery and bullshit narratives about rugged individualism.
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But him and Rocks doubled down on a message of self-expression and individualism.
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Is it the vestigial expression of a rugged individualism born on the American frontier?
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Valuing individualism is associated with less concern about climate change and its various solutions.
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He symbolized a rugged individualism that appealed to many Americans heading into the 1960s.
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Individualism reigns supreme in fashion, and one-off personalized pieces are now de rigueur.
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So far individualism has held sway, with farmers wanting to build their own distilleries.
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If so, what do you think are the benefits and drawbacks of that individualism?
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But the embrace of individualism allowed for a rejection of programs like affirmative action.
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LaVey venerated Satan as the ultimate "adversary," the symbol of individualism and personal liberty.
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And she believes that "the system we live under is the greatest one in the world," a sentiment I've heard many times from evangelicals who value the individualism of democracy and capitalism in the same way their faith values the individualism of conversion.
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We believe their marketing campaigns when it appeals to our collective sense of rugged individualism.
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Individualism is not radical or new, and neither are the communities to which Eisenman points.
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Individualism is a human right and queerness is not the latest fashion birthed by postmodernity.
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But new studies use a proxy for individualism—first names—to suggest that they did.
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This is not yet Western-style individualism, but it is a big step towards it.
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VICE: Given Talese's individualism and pride in his reporting, how did the documentary come about?
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" Keys said she believes individualism reflects personal power, saying, "We become clones of each other.
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The American ethos is founded on individualism and entrepreneurship, not on collectivism and state imposition.
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Trump, on the other hand, embraces individualism and working hard to achieve the American dream.
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Can the civic republican tradition succeed where market individualism seems to be failing so miserably?
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THE FRACTURED REPUBLIC: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism, by Yuval Levin.
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It stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture.
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The rampant individualism of our ego-obsessed culture is a prison, he declares, a catastrophe.
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But her nod to modernity and individualism was the demure but noticeable diamond nose stud.
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"In 1980, after a decade of stagnation, we needed an infusion of individualism," he wrote.
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"It is an extreme expression of individualism, and in its essence it's anarchy," it added.
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This country, we are taught, was founded on the principles of individualism and free enterprise.
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First, it suggests that historically Americans rose purely through rugged individualism — think of the pioneers!
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Maggie's Farm makes a call for individualism, while slamming the hypocrisy of freedom through servitude.
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The Symbolists' political associations were equally split between Catholic right-wing nationalism and anarchist individualism.
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It felt like a very 21st-century feminist battle: Modern idealistic individualism trouncing faded movement solidarity.
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He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.
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The spirit of our country — I believe in the values of rugged individualism and self-reliance.
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Yet "the club" can also transplant you back to the rampant individualism of your single days.
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Social media has polarised electorates; it will be hard to turn the clock back on individualism.
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Others say -- "rugged individualism" aside -- consumers, including graduate students, have a right not to be deceived.
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Moreover, fascists believe in strong state control, not get-government-off-your-back individualism and deregulation.
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In fact, Plato often condemned the evils he associated with greed, excessive individualism and economic inequality.
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She only glancingly acknowledged that his extreme individualism also made him a passionate and active abolitionist.
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The preparedness phenomenon aligns with the US history of prizing ideals of individualism and self-reliance.
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But there's also a counter-strain of individualism, and many people are simply natural-born characters.
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It was a sense of individualism that would color much of his own work and lifestyle.
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If everyone is uniform in their individualism, then this place is no better than Hot Topic.
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Deep below any formal faith, our real religion continues to be self-reliance and rugged individualism.
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It's part of a broad effort to obscure anything that celebrates money worship, hedonism or individualism.
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In the past couple of centuries, however, secularism has gone all-in on individualism and materialism.
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We come from communities we do not wish to renounce in the name of our individualism.
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That old laissez-faire individualism is, indeed, not adequate to the tasks we face in 2019.
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In terms of political biases, I consider myself a classical liberal and strongly value individualism and reason.
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That freedom and our admiration for individualism have led to a breathtaking history of creativity and entrepreneurship.
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It is too ideologically diverse and fractious; individualism is wired too deeply into the country's political culture.
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Ruthless competitive individualism is being applied to the romantic and private realm and it's deeply anti-social.
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It has to do with our rugged individualism and our fear of getting too close to pain.
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Many of the observations have weathered well (he noted, for instance, how American individualism coexisted with conformism).
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This damaging form of objectification degrades an individual to a single identifier, drowning individualism and perpetuating fetishism.
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The conversation glided from individualism and data to populism and "this sense of doom" that people feel.
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Pinheaded bureaucrats insisting on permits for irrigation ditches offends what remains of America's sense of rugged individualism.
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Thus, the series often functioned as a sci-fi-flavored defense of liberal internationalism and humanist individualism.
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But the life sciences are now undermining free will and individualism, which are the foundations of humanism.
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The unfolding Koch drama perhaps illustrates the logical endpoint of libertarianism as a philosophy of extreme individualism.
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"I want the original magazine's spirit of individualism, but not the husky, hairy-knuckled stuff," he said.
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Is our gritty individualism stopping us from cashing in on benefits that many Europeans take for granted?
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KOLE BOWMANAtlanta The Graphic detail on the link between unusual names and individualism was fun (February 16th).
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"Familism" became central to the national identity, and was contrasted with the selfish individualism of the West.
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Yet another factor is Jamaicans' combative individualism, the dark side of which is the country's chronic violence.
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There are so many '-isms' calling for their attention and for their loyalty — individualism, atheism, materialism, extremism.
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He was in his 30s and a family man in a business that celebrated youth and individualism.
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They loved the city, but its values—competition, individualism, transience, capitalism—seemed in tension with their faith.
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Liberal individualism doesn't produce the sort of virtuous, self-restrained people that are required to sustain it.
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And so when racism and American individualism intersect, you get a particularly potent combination of cultural influences.
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In London, the tube is defined by an uneasy balance of shared purpose and hard-headed individualism.
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The theme for this year, #EachforEqual, centers on global gender equality and the concept of collective individualism.
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Blair sought, with some help from Bill Clinton's triangulations, to put a human face on selfish individualism.
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But that should not obscure a profound intellectual-moral difference: Roger rejected "individualism" in any serious sense.
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In a nation fixated on individualism, cults and communes are easy objects of disdain—and perhaps envy.
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As the book's subtitle suggests, ingenuity is somehow baked into American individualism, national character and social life.
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It looks to me like our much-touted individualism is about to be tested — and exploited — again.
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It's as much a deeply held philosophy as it is a message about individualism, feminism, and gender equality.
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One way of doing so could be playing up the brand's femininity, while promoting a sense of individualism.
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Crossing from Rwanda into the Kivus, you go from order to chaos, from stultifying conformity to exuberant individualism.
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There's a sense of individualism, but also a recognition that you have to take care of your neighbour.
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The forces that have shaken up marriage in rich countries—rising individualism, education, women's economic emancipation—are spreading.
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I think a lot of those narratives are a way to take away our agency and our individualism.
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For years, the Party has been built upon the principles of limited government, individualism, and free market Capitalism.
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In the U.S. – which also places a high value on individualism – there's no real cultural equivalent of hygge.
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And he promises to renounce formalism and "unhealthy individualism," and instead write melodic music for the Soviet people.
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After the Fascist experience, Italian elites became and largely have remained skeptical about national individualism in foreign affairs.
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At Robert College the students were exposed to an ethos that celebrates individualism, privacy, ambition, and self-expression.
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The California gold rush was the proving ground of Manifest Destiny, transmuting rugged individualism into wealth and glory.
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The American taste for individualism will continue to frustrate the hopes of liberals and their sometime leftist allies.
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It is about individualism there, and the 'I', and success and fame is the ultimate goal for everything.
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Street Fighter's mixture of competition, bravado, and individualism easily translate into the trials and travails of a rapper.
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The most in-demand platforms—especially the big three: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook—prioritized individualism and self-branding.
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The plague was followed by a period of great wealth and, above all, by a hitherto unknown individualism.
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We have been living in an America still clinging to some notion of rugged individualism to its peril.
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It's excessive individualism, which has eaten away at our uniting faith and damaged our relationships with one another.
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Religiously, liberal individualism has become a solvent for the faith, in the United States as well as Europe.
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In it, the Pope said an "ambition for profit at all costs" was driving individualism, rather than inclusiveness.
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All of this regimented behavior, Whyte warned, was draining the United States of its individualism and independent spirit.
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Although this surge of individualism is present, you won't find too many people willing to call it anarchy.
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Blown away by the passion and grassroots individualism of the underground community, Olshefski simply wanted to keep hanging out.
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While deploring America's individualism and self-interest, Mr Wang fails to see the reach of philanthropy and voluntary organisations.
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It was a similar thread to girl power's mantra of individualism and self-emancipation matched with sisterhood and friendship.
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Kelly doesn't suffer fools, and he sure as hell doesn't suffer individualism, ego and anything less than 100% teamwork.
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In being so obsessed with individualism are we ignoring a core aspect of what it means to be human?
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The right should respect individualism and even when there is not agreement it is still far better than groupthink.
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The ethic of rugged individualism gave way to the desire to have the federal government help line Hannity's pocket.
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By the 1890s, as White amply demonstrates, the ongoing tension between individualism and bureaucracy seemed to favor the latter.
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But what overwhelms these contrasts is a profound commonality: both are hostile to our ideals of reason, individualism, freedom.
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It can intensify individualism, rather than building the level of social solidarity that labor unions or political campaigns do.
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The ideals both men wanted to strive for—individualism, independence, minimalism—started to make sense to their loved ones.
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It's threatened by extreme individualism — people who put the needs of the individual above the needs of the community.
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Over the past two generations, however, excessive individualism and bad schooling have corroded both of those sources of cohesion.
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We've taken the lies of hyper-individualism and we've made them the unspoken assumptions that govern how we live.
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Gail: I've always suspected that many conservatives hate mass transit because it just fundamentally offends their sense of individualism.
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There's a really interesting juxtaposition of collectivism to individualism that happens when you're a Westerner who comes to Korea.
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But very few sports, if any, frown upon individualism as much as hockey has for the last century-plus.
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Without the discipline of party politics, social movements devolve into mere feeling, especially in our age of expressive individualism.
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I feel as though this debate really showed me the state of the Democratic Party in terms of individualism.
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He critiqued both political and economic liberalism for promoting a selfish individualism inimical to community, his highest political ideal.
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Whatever happened to the playmakers, the socks-rolled-down mavericks whose individualism could alter the course of a match?
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Then there's another that he says is basically orthogonal to that, which is the dimension between individualism and communitarianism.
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It is shocking to see how individualism was not allowed fifty years ago and are still not allowed today.
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Crispin's rejection of universalism and individualism, though, feels somewhat new, or at least it's stated in more urgent terms.
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One might wonder why natural selection would have favored this collective behavior instead of more rampant individualism among the cells.
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They reflect the rugged individualism of a very individualist candidate, and point to the fundamental paradox of the Cruz candidacy.
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I think that ends where we are now, with a culture of extreme individualism and extreme competitiveness and extreme isolation.
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If you live in a world driven by individualism, what it doesn't answer is what goes on when you die.
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Theirs is a richer China, where the old emphasis on community has been replaced by a greater sense of individualism.
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In the book, you say that the "new American self" is torn between individualism and community, between selfishness and sociability.
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By the last quarter of the century, he sees the failure of democratic ideals in untrammeled individualism and instrumental rationality.
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That's the opposite of a recipe for voters who will embrace rugged individualism and anything resembling conservative free-market principals.
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That, to me, says there's something literally deadly about social isolation, the kind of individualism that typifies our modern society.
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"Everywhere, we are told that we will prosper through competitive self-interest and extreme individualism," George Monbiot argued last year.
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Put another way, Republicans need to understand that the bad cousin of rugged individualism—conservative America's founding value—is narcissism.
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Texans, it is thought, mindlessly celebrate individualism, and view government as a kind of kryptonite that weakens the entrepreneurial muscles.
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In their eyes, this formal frugality was a necessary correction to the heroic individualism of New York School Abstract Expressionism.
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I became a conservative because of words like "self-reliance" and "individualism," because it actually seemed the more optimistic philosophy.
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How do you criticize the idea of meritocratic individualism while allowing space for the role of choice and hard work?
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The liberal order emerges from the individualism of Locke and is threatened by group consciousness and romantic resentments of Rousseau.
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The idea for decades was that racial justice would come when we reduced individual bigotry — the goal was colorblind individualism.
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Authenticity is considered necessary to individualism, but Glover is fascinated by how difficult achieving authenticity even is for his characters.
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The Reformation and its wars did indeed diminish religious authority, secularize politics and allow certain kinds of individualism to flourish.
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Margarita Mooney of Princeton Theological Seminary has written that personalism is a middle way between authoritarian collectivism and radical individualism.
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Yours is a generation that seeks to enlighten society through the medium of art and a culture that celebrates individualism.
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And, how much is worth sacrificing for the sake of looking fashionable or affluent — or simply to express one's individualism?
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In the US for example, we prioritize individualism, so pride is pretty universally seen as a "right" emotion to have.
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Championed as a spur to rugged individualism, it has prompted communities like Preston to intensify government's role in economic life.
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How will the progressives' prescription of ever-greater dependency survive an economy that gives people hope and inspires individualism and ambition?
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But it was the boomer embrace of religious individualism that really determined the country's spiritual trajectory, not some unique millennial apostasy.
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I hope that this work will encourage people to dig deeper into who they are and be proud of that individualism.
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The East Asian tradition, China included, for example, is far more communal, collective and familial than the individualism of the West.
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With their eagle feathers and fiery expressions, Plains Indians became synonymous with the rugged individualism Americans liked to see in themselves.
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In fact, the biggest difference between Gen Z and older adults is that the former places much more emphasis on individualism.
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In an ironic twist, it seems to have taken a healthy dose of capitalist individualism to rehabilitate a failed communist utopia.
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Gung-ho individualism is only compatible with egalitarianism, that old Western brew, when resources are infinite and the individuals are few.
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We are showing the depth and the individualism and the agency of human beings and allowing ourselves to understand their complexities.
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And I think America made a wise choice to have a robust, constantly turning market society with the consequent individualism celebrated.
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Her extreme politics, infused with Catholic social teaching about the dangers of uncontrolled individualism, doesn't speak to the corporate-dominated right.
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It's a safe, eccentric and vast platform to express individualism and political views — even if the rules expressly forbid the latter.
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She extolled laissez-faire capitalism, ruthless ambition and individualism in her novels, including "The Fountainhead," and a philosophy known as objectivism.
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It's an analysis of the intractable caste system that lingers below the national myths of rugged individualism and cities on hills.
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The forces of individualism that are sweeping through so much of society are also leading to the atomization of intellectual life.
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If you want insight into how the league views youth, individualism, and fun in general, look no further than P.K. Subban.
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While these terms roughly correspond to the age-old dichotomy between individualism and collectivism, they are not synonymous with those terms.
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A culture of individualism has led people to focus more on individual outcomes and less on the components of each community.
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And when they dance (Lucy Hind is the movement director), it's with a paradoxical mix of rough individualism and smooth synchronicity.
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Most of us bought into a radical individualism that, as Tocqueville predicted, cuts each secluded self off from other secluded selves.
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Even in a politically eccentric rural state with an abiding emphasis on local individualism and multigenerational credentials in its elected leaders.
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This reflexive individualism has put off solutions that consider science and give regional attention to rivers rather than scattershot state laws.
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Along the way, Kurosawa carves out space to explore themes of love and loyalty, justice and vengeance, individualism and community identity.
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What if instead of insisting we live in a culture of individualism and perfectionism, of unyielding patriarchal strength, we accepted frailty?
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She played a central part in that as well, but "Varda by Agnès" is above all a testament to her individualism.
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Your book is really a history of the idea of individualism in the West, so how did we get this way?
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So we've got a capitalist culture that's built on this idea of competitive individualism, and it's obviously produced a narcissism problem.
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FORD v FERRARI Sound-effects editors get a chance to rev some engines in this fact-based celebration of individualism and industry.
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The manifesto contained a not very thinly veiled rejection of Thatcherism: it repudiated "the cult of individualism" and attacked "untrammelled free markets".
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In this age of individualism and personal freedom, it is for patients themselves to judge whether their lives are intolerable or not.
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Tattoos and individualism The Samoans, and many other traditional communities, saw having a tattoo as an important process rather than a possession.
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He was heavily influenced by both S.T. Coleridge, Britain's greatest critic of Enlightenment rationalism, and Tocqueville, France's greatest critic of liberal individualism.
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It's much easier to spend time in office boasting of their own virtue and lamenting the tragic individualism of the American way.
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LaVeyan satanism, founded by Anton LaVey in 1966, is actually an atheistic faith that's founded on values like individualism, rationality, and freedom.
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You will find no suggestion here that capitalism, the ubiquitous ordering economic and social system of our entire civilization, produces consumerist individualism.
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One was anchored in laissez-faire economics, worshipped the "gospel of individualism," and served as a toady of big industry and banking.
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We're more intrigued by the things that you Americans have in common – your love of freedom, individualism, democratic ideals, and capitalist dreams.
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Blichfield: Yeah, it's a one-two combo of the American spirit, a drive towards individualism and independence, which is a prized quality.
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"I am trying to curb my cultivated individualism, which seemed for years so sweet," she writes at the start of one story.
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We need our leaders to take in the threat of individualism and see that it is unpatriotic and incompatible with our democracy.
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Individualism and collectivism are framed primarily in terms of cooperation and competition, while endarky and exarky are framed in terms of sufficiency.
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But we need to find the right balance between individualism and the community again as we aim to overcome this challenge together.
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Both books were made into blockbuster films, and are celebrations of toughness, perseverance, and rugged individualism in the face of grave danger.
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For William Steding, a diplomatic historian living in Colorado, American individualism has morphed into narcissism, perfectibility into entitlement, and exceptionalism into hubris.
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Rural and urban America clearly have distinct politics, one emphasizing individualism and limited government, the other shared commons that require bigger government.
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In Crazy Rich Asians, a love-marriage ratifies the immigrant character's Americanness by proving that her individualism can lead to true happiness.
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He has been shrewder than libertarian conservatives in recognizing that individualism is not enough, that the right needs a politics of solidarity.
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Only a renewed institutionalism, in Levin's telling, can correct both individualism and partisan tribalism, the two self-reinforcing spirits of our age.
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With this hook, Octave joins other young rappers who have rejected an old-school emphasis on lyrical variety, individualism, and personal catharsis.
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The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, 'We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
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Spiritualists also believed in individualism and in equality between men and women, and many, like Gordon, became leaders in the suffrage movement.
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Darby English's new book 1971 decries black nationalist demands for a unified artistic community in favor of abstraction, individualism, and personal autonomy.
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" He warns Freya that "in life, you may find that rampant individualism isn't always the best way of getting what you want.
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Talk Talk were always at odds with their own success, an attitude that's cemented their reputations as icons of individualism in music.
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He eschews May's rampant individualism up front for a more collective effort, with Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford sharing the goalscoring burden equally.
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In an age of individualism, it's very difficult to get people to surrender some of themselves to an ideal that's bigger than them.
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For many liberals, Canada's emphasis on "peace, order and good government", enshrined in its constitution, is inadequate without an infusion of American individualism.
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And the symbolism of a man or a woman whacking a ball across a luxurious green is 100% American: individualism, abundance, good humor.
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In that literary classic, most of the world's population is subject to omnipresent government surveillance, and independent thought and individualism are actively forbidden.
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People working in media are mostly middle-class types with the same interests, favouring consumerism, hedonism, libertarian individualism and unconditional Europeanism from Brussels.
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But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome.
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It is the violent, repressive left, explicitly disdainful of liberalism and its counterrevolutionary sanction of free inquiry and expression, its untethered, bourgeois individualism.
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One of Mr. Michele's tenets is individualism; the personality he offers his cultists isn't only his own, but a kaleidoscope of wacky plenty.
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It was teamwork that won the game Friday, in contrast with the fragmented individualism that doomed Belgium's so-called Golden Generation to defeat.
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"American Philosophy" succeeds, not as a textbook or survey, but a spirited lover's quarrel with the individualism and solipsism in our national thought.
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Furthermore, it forsakes key principles, such as diversity in thought and individualism, and is thus stuck in a time that has long past.
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She came to where she is today by hard work, self-determination and the rugged individualism that comes with a hardscrabble heartland upbringing.
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These individuals failed to see the value of individualism, and they certainly didn't realize that politics is only one part of your identity.
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It would be difficult to argue that such animus was related to deeply held ideological beliefs about meritocracy in society and rugged individualism.
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Cocker looked around and saw the individualism he eulogized cannibalize the collective action and social conscience it was supposed to give rise to.
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Despite a strong streak of individualism and fiercely protected individualistic identities, all humans are products of the social systems in which they live.
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Neoliberalism, the economic principles of pure individualism paired with an utter demolishing of public works and a concept of the public good, reigns.
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But my main fear was that his storytelling, and the reception to it, redeemed his protagonists' pursuit of individualism instead of damning it.
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A life so pampered, while enviable and thrilling, was also morally suspect, reeking of bourgeois individualism and other Western frivolities, such as democracy.
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And like many great westerns it critiques some of the genre's foundational myths with bracing, beautiful rigor, including the myth of heroic individualism.
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Enthusiasts share a staunch skepticism of the government and an ideological individualism that have long been hallmarks of the broader American gun ethos.
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They seek to push back against the materialism and individualism that have saturated the secular left and right, all at an affordable price.
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It incorporates a belief that individuals are weak and individualism a threat to the survival of the group—family, peasant commune, or empire.
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By fostering rampant individualism and a disregard for traditional institutions, the tech companies are now under threat from a candidate they helped create.
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The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, we have socialism for the very rich [and] rugged individualism for the poor.
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They are part of the family of women or African-Americans or gay people, and never mind individualism and case-by-case judgment.
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Magnus Helmner of Ny Gemenskap (New Community), a homeless charity, said Sweden's welfare system was crumbling under booming property prices and rising individualism.
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While the riverine eastern half of the continent was friendly to individualism, the western half required communalism, to properly apportion scarce water resources.
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The problem with individualism is that it ignores the fact that we're social creatures, that we live and survive and succeed in tribes.
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He traced the beginning of Western individualism back to ancient Greece, and he attributed it to the nature of the geography, surprisingly enough.
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The individualism taught by the religion encouraged a boom in businesses, in part because it freed people from traditional obligations to share their wealth.
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But Silicon Valley focuses on individualism, and promotes using meditation and mindfulness as a means of disruption, to get ahead, rather than collective growth.
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"When I first moved to the U.S. it was very different because it was a lot more about individualism and expressing yourself," said Shum.
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He scorned the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a manifesto for the French revolution, as a charter for private property and bourgeois individualism.
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If you want to see The Outer Worlds as a paean to individualism, there is little in its text that could challenge that interpretation.
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And countries with diverse names rank highly on the Hofstede individualism survey, which asks if people care more about personal success or their communities.
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Liberalism was rejected for its promotion of individualism and individual rights, its emphasis on reason and rationality, its acceptance of pluralism, and its cosmopolitanism.
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Eating in Korean culture is an inherently social activity, but the rise of individualism and loneliness might have sparked an appetite for such broadcasts.
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The mathematical formulations of economic theory rely on three basic assumptions – radical individualism, a universal utilitarian calculus, and a natural tendency towards economic equilibrium.
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Malaysia, like much of the world, is a confusing mixture of piety and tradition on the one hand and secular individualism on the other.
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Mr Levin's first steal is in the subtitle of his new book, "The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism".
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That's because the interior of British Columbia and the province of Alberta exhibit the same rough-and-rugged individualism that is found in Montana.
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Simultaneously, technological developments and increased individualism have meant that political movements and parties cater more to the wishes and preferences of very specific groups.
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But they are pulled apart, first by Tim's upper-crust family, who disapprove of Maud's upbringing and individualism, and then by a family tragedy.
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I find this particularly true of individuals in the United States—we are a culture of high individualism and as such we like identities.
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"To justify this shrinkage of government services, the gospel of market fundamentalism glorifies individualism and individual responsibility as if they were sacraments," Douglas observes.
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"As individualism increased in the US, sexual attitudes and behavior became more permissive and less rule-bound," Twenge said at the time of publication.
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It is also to normalize something more dangerous: the deployment of extreme individualism in the service of political power over institutional and linguistic conventions.
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"The city is actually the place of rugged individualism," said my classmate Joan, who grew up in suburban Philadelphia and uses the pronoun they.
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"My dad always said we were Western conservatives," said Ms. Hoover, meaning a blend of Western individualism and a libertarian's approach to social issues.
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The consumerism, the hyper-individualism, the greed, the lack of some common project or goal — doesn't all of that lead to something like decadence?
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Most important, philosophical concepts such as individualism or, later, Herbert Spencer's notion of "survival of the fittest" undercut the revolutionary implications of Radical Republicanism.
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It's about individualism, but at the same time things can become homogenized faster because the more likes it gets, [the more] it spreads out.
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This is particularly true in rural Australia, where the majority of farmers are men, who are expected to display an image of rugged individualism.
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In Regina, whose individualism is refined rather than rugged, Hellman created one of the stage's great antiheroines and a glide bomb of a role.
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It used to be known as middle-class individualism, and involves confusing sympathy with empathy, as well as making a fetish of immediate experience.
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It's the nature of American individualism, but as any advice columnist will tell you, sometimes the strongest thing to do is ask for help.
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With a little help from our friends at the local elementary, we put individualism on display and showed them 'how it used to be.
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The difference is that the goals of their use aren't believed to be influenced by Western capitalism or individualism, but by the communal good.
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Their theory is that, essentially, an increasing feeling of individualism during financial difficulty inspires new parents to choose names that stand out from the crowd.
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He is credited with coining "radical chic" to refer to rich, liberal sensibilities and "the Me Decade" to refer to a 1970s turn toward individualism.
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In Loba's view, self-nourishment also involves prioritizing community-building over individualism, especially in relation to forging bonds with other women and queers of color.
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It's a particular kind of feminism that dovetails perfectly with the rise of neoliberalism—the period of capitalism that features deregulation, privatization, and hyper-individualism.
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As pointed out in this viral piece on Weibo, the film's plot is quite the opposite; themes of defying authority and individualism are prominent throughout.
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As they point out, Luther wanted no part of pluralism—even for the time, he was vehemently anti-Semitic—and not much part of individualism.
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Mr Green ascribes America's success to the "biblical worldview" of the country's Founders—a worldview that, in his telling, overlaps with aspiration and rugged individualism.
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Others described a more pragmatic sensibility, noting that Tillerson's favorite book is "Atlas Shrugged," the Ayn Rand novel extolling the virtues of capitalism and individualism.
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For Smedley, the ideology of American individualism proved a bitter punishment, for Wilder the fulfillment of what she took to be a God-given promise.
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Fletcher Shears goes on to share a bit of life-style advice, extolling the virtues of patience, originality, individualism, and getting a good night's sleep.
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"Once again the halls of Congress reverberate with odes to rugged individualism, state sovereignty, and contempt for the centralized super-state," Wilkie said in closing.
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Wang Xizhi's validation of individualism and vulnerability, implied by the polygraphic movement of the brush in his hand, had deep resonance in an insecure time.
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And then the progress of sexual individualism and the energy of a renascent left has pulled that elite further left across the last eight years.
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" The group's big conclusion is that American culture is drifting towards greater "cultural individualism," a system "that favors the self more highly than the collective.
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" Meanwhile "individualism" itself is also sadly linked to "high extraversion, especially boldness and assertiveness," as well as "low agreeableness, especially low modesty and high grandiosity.
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But "I-don't-care-ism" also appears to take shape as an enormous autocratic machine, one that rejects differences, alternative ideas, individualism, and critical feedback.
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Local artists have criticized Mass Individualism rather scathingly, partly because of its hetereogeneity and its theoretical open-endedness, but Zaferani's curatorial gestures are quite solid.
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Our 19th- and 20th-century counterparts grafted their values onto handwriting, just as we do with our conceptions of individualism, patriotism and the unique self.
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Harley has forever marketed itself as an outfit that stands for the American ideals of rugged individualism and the right to ride untethered by authority.
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"I think that crises are such a powerful time to crack open some of these myths we've been told about individualism," Ms. Freedman told me.
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Though Turner depicted the frontier as "a place where individualism sprouted from the land like prairie weeds," in Grandin's summary, that got the story backward.
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If you have 60 years of radical individualism and ruthless meritocracy, you're going to end up with a society that is atomized, distrustful and divided.
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So I was expecting more individualism, but I saw lots of collaboration, lots of humor, lots of mutual support and unlikely alliances of support forming.
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For many visitors intent on hiking, biking or rock-climbing, the communities of Appalachia, with their rich folk culture and rugged individualism fail to register.
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Millions of weapons aficionados reload their own ammunition and cast their own bullets, acts of individualism that are hallmarks of the broader American gun ethos.
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She smashes the distinctions that structure contemporary debates about feminism and women — between power and submission, objectification and empowerment, sisterhood and individualism, victimhood and vengeance.
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The neoliberal embrace of individualism and opposition to "the collective society," as Margaret Thatcher put it, also had perverse consequences for social and political life.
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Such a system is custom-built for the coming world of post-familialism, the world bequeathed to us by sexual individualism and thinning family trees.
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No uniform style was applied; instead, Duffy studied each model and emphasized her natural look — another push toward individualism and personality on the runways this season.
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She retains a large following less for the quality of her fiction than for her message of what could be called a fundamentalist version of individualism.
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The danger comes from the fact that Ma's individualism, and his current support for individualistic small businesses, could catch on in China in a big way.
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Individualism has misled many areas of inquiry in the West (someday I'll write about how it has screwed up ethics), but among the victims is epistemology.
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The country's contradictions and divides—between community and individualism, spirituality and materialism—are exposed during the wanderings of Sinan (Aydın Doğu Demirkol), the sarcastic young man.
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Some 20 years after the peak of the New York club scene, nightlife is seeing a return to that radical individualism I found in my youth.
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A generation of Chinese, while clamorously asserting forms of individualism that would have been unthinkable for their parents and grandparents, is also enacting a ghastly convergence.
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He is true to the nature of his subject: Black Mountain College radically pushed against glorified individualism and nourished a notion of art based on community.
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As individualism and inclusivity have become marketing tools, custom fit seems like a natural next step, but until now, there hasn't been a clear-cut solution.
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Hillary Clinton was then a "Goldwater Girl" in a cowgirl outfit, enamored of the rugged individualism spelled out in his book, The Conscience of a Conservative.
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At some point, perhaps, bouncy, ultra-feminine scripts will become so ubiquitous that they'll cease to represent the personal affection and individualism that they do now.
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This is individualism at it's finest, and it leads us to believe in some theoretical and "true" version of ourselves, which cannot and does not change.
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BEN BRANTLEY An oddball contribution to the burgeoning creed of 1960s individualism by two self-defined nonconformists, Sondheim and Laurents (the show's book writer and director).
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Blight concedes that Douglass held many individualist views, but argues that the Sandefur interpretation fails to acknowledge the many ways in which he went beyond individualism.
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Perhaps America's individualism predisposed its poets toward the lyric poem, with its insistence on the primacy of a single speaker whose politics were intimate, internal, invisible.
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Years ago, she wrote "American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republicans," a handbook for renovating the Republican Party (and his legacy).
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The study found that relational mobility was a strong predictor of the tendency to support sacrificing one person, even after controlling for religiosity, individualism, and GDP.
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This is all the more relevant at a time when the political implications of unbridled individualism, represented by capitalism's self-made man, have never been clearer.
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Professors Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz, authors of the 2019 book Manufacturing Happy Citizens, have accused positive psychology of advancing a Western, ethnocentric creed of individualism.
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Sestak explains how two tenets of the American character — individualism and common enterprise — underlie his proposed policy positions to help restore the nation's system of meritocracy.
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The series followed one of Starfleet's starships, the Enterprise, and a diverse (especially for its time) crew that reflected the show's commitment to inclusion, peace, and individualism.
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This outlook combined fierce individualism and egalitarianism; as Patty Limerick, of the University of Colorado, puts it, the pioneers were at once advancing civilisation and rejecting it.
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Will he uphold genuine American ideals – individualism, freedom of speech, rule of law – or cast them aside in seeking a morally bankrupt alliance with a dictatorial leader?
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The gun-maker Smith & Wesson was once an iconic national brand, a symbol of Americana and rugged individualism dating back to the battlefields of the Civil War.
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VICE Impact picked out seven LGBTQ-friendly summer destinations that embrace and encourage the individualism and love we often have to subdue in our day to day.
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There is a strain of deep individualism that competes with this sense of community because festivals become stages for self-expression and all sorts of identity performances.
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Storr argues that this uncompassionate edge of self-esteemery dovetails with the economic ideas of Ayn Rand and the competitive individualism of her followers in neoliberal politics.
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THE FOUNTAINHEAD One of the hottest directors working today, Ivo van Hove, is at the helm of this reimagining of the divisive Ayn Rand novel about individualism.
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In 1995, the French intellectual Pascal Bruckner published "The Temptation of Innocence," in which he argued that excessive individualism paradoxically leads to in-group/out-group tribalism.
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He faults the culture's freewheeling encouragement of rampant individualism for most of society's ills and puts this blame squarely on "free-to-be-you-and-me" liberalism.
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Socialism has always been a minority belief in the United States, as the country's ethos is founded on individualism and entrepreneurship not on collectivism and state imposition.
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Nobody made boots like Mr. Carroll — he handcrafted them for seven presidents and Pope John Paul II — and nobody embodied Texas eccentricity and individualism like Mr. Carroll.
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I respect such activism, but at the conference I silently wondered: Were participants bamboozled by an American brand of you-can-do-it-against-miserable-odds individualism?
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Hobson's '80s were not the Reagan years but the 1880s, of course, but his complaints about laissez-faire individualism find their echoes in today's critiques of neoliberalism.
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She shows how Southerners eventually learned to use the "veiled language" of Northerners to cloak deeply unequal policies in the seemingly neutral vocabulary of rights and individualism.
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Ottinger's images present a queerness that isn't interested in individualism but rather in creating a universal force, like gravity or hate, bound by neither the body nor society.
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Fittingly for a legacy of the Communist era the annual freeze also sparks a burst of solidarity among Russians now more used to capitalist individualism than communal living.
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"Atlas Shrugged", a political screed presented as a romance, remains a staple of best-seller lists and perhaps the single most influential clarion call for anti-state individualism.
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Photo: GettyCapitalists everywhere rejoice—a new study published in the Proceedings of The Royal Society B has found that individualism and fussiness pay off in the ant world.
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This idea of rugged individualism actually goes back a long time in American history, and is one of the problems that we're seeing in science, technology, and business.
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Her 1990 address to Wellesley College graduates tells a great anecdote about a young schoolgirl arguing for her individualism, pokes fun at her husband and quotes Ferris Bueller.
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There is a severe individualism to the music which can be attributed to founder and visionary, Steve Austin, who also took on the band's production and recording responsibilities.
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Growing class divisions and isolation, hyper-individualism and aversion to sacrificing in the short term to invest for the future are national behaviors that stand in our way.
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"The very idea that some sermon or blog or tweet has gone viral is a sad reflection on the state of individualism in the 21st century," he says.
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Both parts of the community, though, share a staunch skepticism of the government and an ideological individualism that have long been hallmarks of the broader American gun ethos.
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In the popular conscience, positive ecological change is unhelpfully conceived as a matter of consumer individualism, that is, as a problem of more or less virtuous personal choice.
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In addition, apparent differences between landscape paintings of Mt. Kumgang by two artists, Choe Chang Ho and Jong Yong Man, suggest that North Korean society has embraced artistic individualism.
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Another glaring feature of millennial culture is they have been forced to be self-reliant and to take a loosely networked individualism as the normal order of the universe.
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We are held together by our recognition of individual rights—yet our individualism is overpowering our sense of community and starting to eat away at the fabric of society.
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In such turbulent sociopolitical times, we ought to celebrate individualism, energy, creativity, and optimism, and our wardrobe can and should be an instantly gratifying and uplifting outlet for such.
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Sho Yamazaki, a 22018-year-old baker who recently set up his own catering company in Tokyo, sees creeping individualism in Japan as a good thing for the young.
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These included incrementalism — meaning focusing on the next step, whether that's getting the next meal or shower, for example — as well as individualism, mentorship and technology, and endless curiosity.
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Those owners would retain title to their quotas, though, so the upshot might be fewer, larger vessels fishing on behalf of consortia, rather than the rugged individualism of today.
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"We live in an era of individualism and personal responsibility, characterized by disinvestment in social safety nets, declines in social cohesion, loss of connections, and increased loneliness," Monnat says.
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It follows that America must not forsake its rugged individualism: "We don't want to become like the rest of the world," Mr Rubio insists, delighting his many fellow exceptionalists.
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But unlike Paul Ryan, I'm not a fanatical opponent of the welfare state who views American politics as an apocalyptic twilight struggle between the forces of individualism and collectivism.
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Narcissism rises Different research methods have found that individualism is on the rise in American culture, with younger generations reporting less empathy and more self-focus than generations before.
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Yes, they promote the weed-laced herbal supplements and treatments that GOODWITCH creates, but they also actively highlight the beauty, expression, and individualism of each of the featured models.
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It also felt like a basic affront to some of the reasons why my husband loves me, like my ambition and individualism and my constant, probably-annoying question-asking.
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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner ardently believed, in fact, that "that restless, nervous energy, that dominant individualism" attributed to the frontier was the major influence on American democracy's development.
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That did the trick for baby boomers who flocked in droves to the expensive toys cleverly marketed as a symbol of freedom, individualism and adventure on America's scenic roads.
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No liberal polity could survive on the basis of individualism, which the French theorist, Alexis Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," said was just a modern word for selfishness.
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Rioux concludes that Little Women has endured because of the power of its "lessons" about balancing family and career, individualism and selflessness, and the value of (truly) companionate marriage.
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It can show up in any arena of life: religion, politics, our lust to live as if we are of infinite capacity, and our cultural idol of rugged individualism.
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In the past, those major breaks have occurred around issues of individualism and authority, slavery and racism, tensions between science and faith, and the role of women in leadership.
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I had already spent time in Tokyo on a modest budget (more on that next week) and decided to see if Osaka and its individualism would prove as accessible.
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Its broad empathy separates it from the law-and-order crime show tradition; its deep Christian themes — grace, redemption, being one's brother's keeper — go against pop culture's secularist individualism.
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But in recent decades, we have lost our muscle memory in terms of something that is just as important in times of crisis: the balance between individualism and community.
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If not, we'll look back and realize that sacrificing the public sector on the altar of "school choice" and individualism has left us unprepared for an increasingly multiracial society.
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And the specific identity the NRA sought to build, based in American traditions of self-reliance, rugged individualism, and the like, was designed to fit well with American conservatism.
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And it's this individualism of form and function that I think comprises the most pertinent character of the game, early doors anyway, beyond its cast and their various quests.
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" Asked if his self-label of "socialist" could hurt him in the general election, he argued that "we have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
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"What started as a symbol of rebellion and individualism in the '50s and '60s for those trapped by the everyday, ended up taking multiple roles of identification," she says.
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Progressive politics depends on cultivating a sense of solidarity and social obligation, which becomes much harder as families shrink and grow older, and individualism becomes the dominant social fact.
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Perhaps every scammer is the upside-down mirror image of the American Dream, the logical endpoint to the kind of rugged individualism we are taught to admire and emulate.
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The word and concept of "loneliness" came into being around 1800 as a direct result of the breakdown of traditional communities and the rise of individualism and consumer capitalism.
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Now, with its latest patch for the last act of Shadowbringers, it is questioning the individualism and narrative foundations that lie under the surface of the entire RPG genre.
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But for Westerners and particularly Americans, reared on individualism and the myth of the maverick who wins by breaking the rules, such oddball creations don't carry much cultural freight.
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Why, instead of yearning for the days of "leaders" spitting out clichés and rhetoric, can we not celebrate a player who embraces individualism without the slightest hint of self-consciousness?
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"The prosperity gospel has been the favorite whipping boy for the wider evangelical world who are looking for an indictment of greed and hyper-individualism in American culture," Bowler says.
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In place of supposed Silicon Valley virtues like idealism, flexibility, and merit we now detect opportunism, self-dealing, individualism, overblown promises, and, as always, a great man to lead us.
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Whereas the muralists proclaimed, "[Our] aesthetic aim is to socialise artistic expression, to destroy bourgeois individualism," the Contemporáneos tried to carve out a private space where individual sensibility could endure.
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Because social media created a public forum to broadcast one's individualism, "it's not surprising that gradually that becomes true of you forever in the eternal phase of life," he continues.
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Both tracks feature a solo performer with one instrument and touch on similar themes of what individualism means, whether in the presence of other people or as an artist creating.
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Gen Z is "notably more likely than older generations to value doing what it takes to get ahead in life," Morning Consult reports, and values individualism over a hierarchical system.
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Tip too far in either direction and you undermine property rights until they're meaningless or you create a society so hemmed in by radical individualism that it ceases to function.
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They point out that for all our love of rugged individualism, government played a large and underappreciated role in reshaping the American economy before — and it could do so again.
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The rise in individualism that has caused some to pursue blind self-interest has had the opposite effect on others, instilling more of a social conscience and increasing civic engagement.
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"Fighters work outside a system," Griffin says, describing the individualism of boxers and their disdain for reputations and externally-mandated limits—traits so obvious in a personality like Bernard Hopkins.
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Yet America's history also demonstrates that, in times of war, we can rise above our ardent individualism and suspicion of the government and come together to defend the public good.
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But there is a level of unhelpful Texas exceptionalism that leads people to believe that somehow their rugged individualism or gut instincts will handle the virus in a better way.
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It's not hard to identify parallels between Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s — with its creed of individualism, street unrest, financial hardship and disaffected working classes — and the world today.
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Choice — which appeals to core American values of freedom, independence and individualism — is also used to talk about many other topics in American politics, including health care, schools and housing.
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Jeannette, her father's favorite — his nickname for her is Mountain Goat — admires her parents' free-spirited individualism even as she suffers amid the chaos of their chosen way of life.
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News Analysis We live in a culture that celebrates individualism and self-reliance, and yet we humans are an exquisitely social species, thriving in good company and suffering in isolation.
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Mr. Ossoff grew up in the district and attended Paideia, an Atlanta private school known for nurturing creativity and individualism, followed by Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.
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The idea that mass contagion could start a zombie apocalypse was soon appropriated by a new survivalism fantasy — one predicated on ample weaponry, rugged individualism, and a fear of globalization.
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American values have always been biased toward individualism, achievement and flexibility — nurturing disruptive dynamos like Bell Labs, Walmart, Whole Foods, Google and Apple — and less toward dirigisme, order and economic equality.
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Whether they're mocking J.D. Vance for his regressive individualism or slamming manufacturers for exploiting the area's regional history to sell pans, the theme is the same: This region isn't less than.
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All of the exploring, scavenging, tinkering, clutter, and heroic individualism of the Elder Scrolls series meant that the Bethesda framework was primed for an amoral wasteland wanderer to come strolling through.
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In it, he argues that the dismissal of Judeo-Christian values and the Greek tradition of reason leads to subjectivism and individualism that is behind the West's social and political malaise.
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But there are places that are more focused on individualism and they're tight — like Austria and Germany and Switzerland — and places that are collectivist and loose, like Latin America and Spain.
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But Cessario's critics are right to see in his piece knee-jerk reactionary nostalgia, rather than a constructive effort to find a path forward, beyond the liberalism and individualism he decries.
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His books are also about New York, Tammany Hall, the Senate, the Texas Hill Country, American individualism and, above all, political power, how it is wielded and what it can achieve.
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I believed in individualism, and was taught at a young age not to judge people for what they look like or where they came from but the content of their character.
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When I was on set, I remember thinking how cool it was that the girls [including last campaigns' casts] were there were so different — there was a real sense of individualism.
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Myths are not mere stories to Peterson; they're formative archetypes that shape human perception, teaching us how to move from the chaos of raw existence to the order of productive individualism.
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The "Reagan revolution," writes Cowie, was simply a "restoration" of the individualism that had been the norm in governance before the Great Depression and the early decades of the Cold War.
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This declension has deep roots in the sexual revolution and modernity's embrace of autonomous individualism and of the notion that the meaning of life is self-determined rather than God-determined.
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"In a fast-moving world inundated with content," said Mr. Flynn, "Hello Kitty has not only survived but thrived, and the reason involves what she stands for — individualism, tolerance and friendship."
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As the liberal tradition's most astute contemporary defender, Peter Berkowitz, often points out, the charge that liberal individualism is self-destructively materialistic is itself an important strand of the liberal tradition.
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Liberals increasingly write about gun ownership the way social conservatives write about abortion and euthanasia — it's a culture of death, a Moloch devouring our children, a blood sacrifice to selfish individualism.
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We, as individuals and families, can only do so much when we're on our own, so I think we're bumping up against the limits of excessive American individualism and market society.
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Those who align more with individualism, as conservatives are, are instead concerned with individual liberty, freedom, and autonomy, which is usually conceived through anti-government opinions, lower taxation, and lower regulation.
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Elsewhere, data seems to have already won: Algorithms have so thoroughly buffed away individualism that something called an "Instagram face" exists (and you probably know without clicking what it looks like).
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The second thing we saw was how Trump's ethnic nationalism emerges from the wreckage of the old G.O.P. Healthy American political philosophies balance individualism and collectivism, personal freedom and communal cohesion.
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I reached out to Storr to talk about bogus myths around self-esteem, the roots of our individualism, and what we can do to break out of our self-important bubbles.
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He was a literary heir to Walt Whitman, depicting a rugged American individualism, romanticism and freedom as wide as the Lower 48, with his boots pulled up and his hat worn low.
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"Consciously resist mistaken thoughts such as the worship of money, hedonism, extreme individualism, and historical nihilism," Xi added, referring to attempts to reevaluate core events and personalities of the party's revolutionary past.
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Protestant-tinged individualism remains the dominant language of the American right, which means the reactionary international will remain the politics of an elite minority, which is sometimes influential but rarely in control.
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It's through a big push toward subsidiarity, devolving choice and power down to the local face-to-face community level, and thus avoiding the excesses both of rigid centralization and alienating individualism.
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In particular, he stresses the importance of Abstract Expressionism as a symbol of American individualism and anti-Communism, contrasting American art against the effeminate and tasteful art made in Paris, for example.
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White Americans hunger for plausible deniability and swaddle in it and always have — for the sublime relief of deferred responsibility, the soft violence of willful ignorance, the barbaric fiction of rugged individualism.
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Even France's vaunted high-speed TGV is more than a train; it is a symbol of French planning and ambition, a riposte to an American vision of individualism embodied in the automobile.
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He was among a cohort of early YouTubers who had colonized the platform with a politics constituted by antifeminism, stalwart individualism, a disdain for religion (especially Islam), and opposition to social justice.
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A few critics I know are trying to name the most Trumplike release of 93; one suggested Clint Eastwood's "Sully," which I see more as an exemplar of classic Hollywood's heroic individualism.
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The displays of racism, sexism and xenophobia that this presidential election has brought us — often in the form of stories that express values associated with macho individualism — are to be rejected wholesale.
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Though his work has defied easy categorization and his rugged individualism kept him outside of the spotlight for too many years, his unrelenting dedication to his pioneering vision has deeply inspired younger generations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote "core socialist values", and "forcefully oppose" content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought.
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On the other, their idolization of reason over emotion and individualism over the collective good has left them with dangerous blind spots in applying their knowledge on a wider social and political stage.
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Born in Costa Rica to Chinese parents, Shum relocated to the U.S. with his family as a child and said he was struck by the value Americans placed on individualism and self-expression.
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"Strong conviction to the tenets of individualism and responsibility make CrossFit look less like a fitness program and more like a course in Libertarianism," wrote CrossFit's social media director Russell Berger in 2008.
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The United States is built on philosophies of individualism, ingenuity, and hard work: concepts difficult to espouse when the government's paying you to sit at home and paint along with Bob Ross reruns.
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But there's no argument that in an era that teems with choice, brims with niche marketing and exalts individualism to the extent that ours does, we're sorting ourselves with a chillingly ruthless efficiency.
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Only in the post-World War II era, Rosenblatt argues, did liberals begin to dispense with the notion of the public good and reduce liberalism's meaning to doctrinaire free market ideology and individualism.
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But can one convincingly designate these civic-minded qualities the core values of a political tradition that for two centuries has also repeatedly declared its allegiance to possessive individualism and the free market?
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That's the best America has to offer — individualism and freedom; energy and exuberance; courage to explore a frontier; and, unlike H.B. 2, finding bonds that bring Americans together instead of driving them apart.
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CACG, which deplores economic inequality, characterizes modern America as a society where "greed, materialism, and excessive individualism" are ubiquitous and views conservative politics and free markets as the enemies of authentic social justice.
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And in contrast to the individualism of classical liberals and many conservatives, the center-left's emphasis was on citizens' obligations to one another and the government's duty to promote the good of society.
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Mr. Betts would seem to be taking a more dispassionate God's eye view, in which the divisions within a single home are revealed to mirror the blind, selfish individualism destroying an entire nation.
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Loops of plucked violin and layers of vocals add up to a statement of no-nonsense, matter-of-fact individualism from Brittney Parks, who records as the one-woman electronic band Sudan Archives.
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In the screed he left behind, he lambasts the consumerism and individualism of white Americans as much as he does "Hispanics," but decides it is the latter group who must suffer his anger.
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Today, with the swearing in of Donald J. Trump, America's fleeting fascination with socialism has come to an end — and the path to freedom, self-reliance, personal responsibility and individualism has been restored.
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"Many people are hoping for a change capable of releasing them from the bondage of individualism and the despondency it spawns," he told the attendees of the second meeting, in Bolivia in 2015.
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Finally, it could fight the deification of individualism and the multiple tribalisms, which have grown over the past four decades in the age of the internet and from the excesses of American culture.
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While I definitely know programmers who are team players and development environments that are dynamic and exciting, there's still a pattern of individualism and relative quiet that doesn't mesh with my work style.
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In the screed he left behind, he lambasts the consumerism and individualism of white Americans as much as he does "Hispanics," but decides it is the latter group who must suffer his anger.
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English decries black nationalist demands for a unified community in favor of an individualism, personal autonomy, and subjectivity that many then and now would deride as a bourgeois affectation if not a betrayal.
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In short order, the larger world crashes in, and a story of radical, deeply privileged individualism gives way to a potent, messy and sometimes uncomfortable parable about what human beings owe one another.
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But the political work that Dungeons & Dragons does in Stranger Things isn't the dog-eat-dog individualism of The Hunger Games, and it doesn't require that we commit to a nihilistic mode of disengagement.
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The Libertarian Party, in the spirit of radical individualism, calls for less reliance on government supported healthcare as well as for an end to institutionalization and coerced treatment of people living with mental illness.
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Nor is Isserman particularly kind to the Yosemite generation that surged to the vanguard after World War II, denigrating them for, among other things, a "competitive individualism" supposedly absent from the previous climbing generations.
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In my book on right-to-work, I argue that the conflict between community and individualism in American culture appears in the political realm as a debate between collective solidarity and economic self-interest.
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Our culture of unhealthy individualism, implicit bias, symbolic violence, subtle racism, and limited resources has pitted men against men whereas I see women more cooperative, team oriented, accepting of diversity, goal focused, and accomplished.
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It is equally hard to understand how so many have missed that American exceptionalism based on liberty, egalitarianism, individualism and democratic politics comingled with support for capitalism requires all components, not just a few.
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To me, this is why the great lie of American individualism — that my experience is the most important thing, and should be protected and enabled at all costs — why this thinking is so pernicious.
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But to believe in the future as these photographers did — to have an artistic vocation greater than narcissistic individualism or ceaseless critique — appears more enviable than pitiable in a new century of downscaled dreams.
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In "Self-Made Man," a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise.
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Football is the most collectivist of sports, seemingly at odds with American individualism, but the United States has always been a nation of joiners and a country in thrall to the idea of team.
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Football is the most collectivist of sports, seemingly at odds with American individualism, but the United States has always been a nation of joiners and a country in thrall to the idea of team.
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When Australian researchers Richard Eckersley and Keith Dear looked at societal factors predicting the incidence of youth suicide, they found that it was associated with several measures of individualism, like personal freedom and control.
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"The Road Not Taken," far from being the celebration of against-the-grain individualism that it is often taken to be, is a poem of radical doubt and existential crisis, mixed with stubborn perseverance.
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When: Opens Saturday, July 30, 5–8pm Where: Venus Over LA (601 S. Anderson St., Boyle Heights, Los Angeles) Art and cars go hand-in-hand as aestheticized symbols of American individualism and freedom.
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Indeed, Nagle explains, the "libertinism, individualism, bourgeois bohemianism, postmodernism, irony, and ultimately the nihilism that the left was once accused of by the right" has found fertile ground in segments of the new far-right.
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Ultimately, that same drive to be alone with the wilderness got converted to a founding myth of individualism, out of which emerged an ideology that visualized freedom from government as an equivalent of freedom itself.
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He does think Jesus was groovy, and he wishes our society, which has since the 1960s (of course) been on a suicidal course toward "hyper-individualism," would consider more deeply the communal ethos of Christianity.
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To borrow the words of philosopher Charles Taylor, it is time to cease "liv(ing) beyond our moral means" in the sexual arena, by continuing to valorize adults'-first-individualism despite its many negative outcomes.
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This sense of abandonment became more wounding as India began in the 1990s to embrace global capitalism together with a quasi-American ethic of individualism amid a colossal population shift from rural to urban areas.
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For many centuries, the conflict driving the plot engine of the human race has been the tension between individualism and collective behavior—between the goal of independent flourishing and the concept of the common good.
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Rather than endorsing the bourgeois individualism epitomized in visibility discourse, we should be working toward a political vision and program of class and race solidarity grounded in collective action, strike, sabotage, protest, and mass mobilization.
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And it's not merely a snapshot of internet culture; it's really a survey of the history of individualism in the Western world, and how it contrasts with the more community-minded cultures in the East.
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America's messianic societies were not perfect: In their quest to tame the vices of hypertrophied American individualism, some of America's messiahs engaged in forms of repression and control that most would consider authoritarian, if not abusive.
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The combination of egalitarianism and individualism might do for Americans what centralisation had done for France—dissolve their defences against governmental power and reduce them to sheep, content to be fed and watered by benevolent bureaucrats.
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Yellowstone is about maintaining aging rancher masculinity as the world shifts around you, it's about not-good-enough-son masculinity, it's about the fallacies of stoic individualism and the masculine identity that serves as its foundation.
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"[F]ar from making people happier, the net effect of consumer capitalism is to reinforce individualism at the expense of health and well-being because it only offers the illusion of control," he wrote in one.
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Although mainstream Satanism doesn't even worship the Devil (followers are atheists who consider the devil a symbol for individualism and freedom, rather than an actual entity), its followers have been accused of some pretty devilish stuff.
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Other recent grads just move back home as they and their parents seem to have failed to realize what $200,000 in debt can do to a young person's healthy and needed dreams of freedom and individualism.
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"The girl-woman is being urged to provide a tough, mature, serious, legal, and punitive version of competitive, consumerist individualism," Badiou writes, while the boys provide a "weak, adolescent, frivolous, lawless, or even borderline criminal" version.
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The conservative surge, as these scholars have argued, builds on long legacies of racism and inequality, and taps into an unquestioned faith in the virtues of individualism and private property and the genius of business executives.
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After an armed and reckless bank robbery (during the getaway Callemin shot himself in the arm), Le Temps Nouveaux called the acts "purely and simply bourgeois," reflecting the "principles of egotistical individualism"—not anarchist at all.
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But a new dress code unveiled by the coffee chain on Monday encourages a new sense of individualism, inviting workers to wear fedoras and beanies, to dye their hair and to incorporate accent ties and socks.
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So, whereas, in the history, more or less everybody shared the same TV channels, the same sources of information, and our lives were very much alike, today, we are living in the middle of the individualism.
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Gun ownership is a form of expressive individualism no less than the liberties beloved in blue America, and it makes sense that a culture that rejects erotic limits would reject limits on self-defense as well.
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With our emphasis on individualism rather than smart and effective governance, we have created a level of economic inequality that will harm all of us by leading to a wider outbreak and even more financial dislocation.
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The philosophies underpinning incel culture, men's rights activists, pickup artists, Alex Jones-variant libertarianism, the intellectual dark web, evolutionary psychology, and prosperity-gospel evangelism all have in common a model of individualism defined by hierarchical struggle.
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And yet the tradition is nonetheless at odds, he argues, with the country's emphasis on individualism, a tension that leads to high rates of divorce but also to remarriage, with worrisome outcomes for finances and children.
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Republicans, championing individualism, are philosophically wary of allying themselves with identity groups as Democrats have done — even if critics charge they have sent coded messages to groups such as Southern whites and the white working class.
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This outlook was also taken up by the Southern Agrarians, a group of writers who idealized the slave South as a bastion of manly virtue in contrast to the commercialism and individualism of the industrial North.
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Whether or not that's true for someone like Coleman, his writing for small classical ensembles does convey a lot of the same features that define his improvised music — in particular, a détente between individualism and symbiosis.
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We see this as quite a dangerous phenomenon because it's all driven by values around success and individualism and competition and rivalry rather than about more traditional values around democracy, participation, collegiality, community and so forth.
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My doctoral research at Baylor University on secularism and modernity only reinforced my belief that the concept of sovereign individualism, which dramatically shapes so much of our consumer and political culture, is a threat to human flourishing.
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" In a paragraph about "the electorate's increasing individualism," for example, he describes how in 1864 "French workers clamored for working-class candidates who would advance their particular interests rather than those of the public as a whole.
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His dissertation, The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society, published in 1970, merges Rousseau and Montesquieu with Marx in a distinctly New Left style (the introduction is titled "The Personal is Political").
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Individualism has long been a core American value, yet as Alexis de Tocqueville observed way back in 1835 in his seminal volume on American society, Americans also believe that individuals must compromise between selfishness and self-fulfillment.
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I have faith that Sweden might begin to think 'progressively' and not cave to the US- like most other countries do- This is a good opportunity to show Sweden's strength- and healthy individualism - The world is watching.
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In small-town America, now synonymous with Republican-majority America, any Democratic voter gets asked why Democrats are intent on taking away American guns, jobs and individualism, and replacing them with handouts to every peeved interest group.
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Does anyone remember George Will declaring that liberals like trains, not because they make sense for urban transport, but because they serve the "goal of diminishing Americans' individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism"?
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Tolstoyan ethics, which fused Christian anarchism with a refusal to partake in violence or evil, represented an individualism so tyrannical that it could not empathize with the erring human face as it learned to act over time.
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In his 1956 best-seller, The Organization Man, William Whyte wrote of a middle class—an implicitly white middle class—trapped in suburbs and office jobs, shorn of the entrepreneurial individualism and wartime solidarity of earlier generations.
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After finishing the book, I wondered if, angry at the propagandist sham of American individualism and bootstraps meritocracy, I'd course-corrected a little too hard — giving up on trying to improve myself or the world around me.
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Broadly speaking, millennials tend to value individualism and self-expression more than previous generations, so it's easier for us to justify what many might see as an exorbitant adult birthday party or over-the-top wedding, she says.
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Still, with a fierce female army of models that embody the dynamism and individualism pumping through not just her designs but London itself, it was hard to not feel a pulse of excitement as the clothes jetted by.
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The number of unmarried couples living together is growing for many of the same reasons it has elsewhere: rising individualism, greater empowerment of women, the deferral of marriage and a decline in traditional taboos on pre-marital sex.
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To risk one's life for the common good is to declare oneself outside this cultural logic of acquisitive individualism; the veteran is an outsider to us by definition, and no amount of yellow ribbons can change that fact.
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When I came to this country I promised that, in the name of the best within me, I would cultivate the American virtues of individualism and personal excellence and take advantage of the opportunities that lay before me.
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He also recognized, well before such Catholic thinkers as Simone Weil and Jacques Maritain, that new conceptions of social interdependence, individual agency, and cosmopolitan responsibility were needed to save the world from the delusions of individualism and collectivism.
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That ascendance crumbled because of the religious right's own faults (which certain of Trump's Christian supporters amply display), and because of trends toward secularization and individualism that no politics can master; it cannot and should not be restored.
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Put in simple terms, the fundamental cultural norm for many Vietnamese is dependence on the will of heaven, which gives individualism to each Vietnamese, provides the people good or bad fortune, and mandates a sovereign state for them.
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That mentality meshed well with the rising sense of individualism and push toward self-sufficiency that prevailed in the 2000s, according to Peggy Wang, founding editor of BuzzFeed and former editorial director of the now-defunct BuzzFeed Life.
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Risk-taking and rugged individualism, big business's eternally self-proclaimed virtues, were in extremely short supply at the top; Gilded Age fortunes sprang from government subsidies, insider tips and, above all, the corruption required to get these favors.
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In their anger and their disillusionment, they would silence what Abraham Lincoln called the mystic chords of memory and reject Martin Luther King's vision of the beloved community, believing only that a maximized individualism is possible for human happiness.
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Her uncle explains that, by keeping the truth from Nai Nai, they are "bearing the emotional burden for her" and that Billi's desire to tell her the truth is an act of selfishness, borne from a learned American individualism.
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" Wright rattles off the familiar stereotypes: "cowboy individualism, a kind of wary friendliness, superpatriotism combined with defiance of all government authority, a hair-trigger sense of grievance, nostalgia for an ersatz past that is largely an artifact of Hollywood.
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The essence of liberalism lies in individualism: liberals believe, along with Benjamin Constant, that "there is a part of human existence that remains of necessity individual and independent, and which lies of right utterly beyond the range of society".
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There is a commonality with America -- with its fierce independence of spirit, the individualism that drives the country, a belief that you have the power to rewrite your story, to chart your own course, that, essentially, anything is possible.
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Our lust for traversing the mountaintops and unknown valleys of the American West sparked an equal desire to seek out watering holes filled with a frontier spirit: the individualism and no-frills pragmatism sprouting potential for ad hoc camaraderie.
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The nationalist-populist wing of the movement resented the social dislocation resulting from "shock therapy," was skeptical of the rapprochement with Germany, was uneasy about liberal norms such as individualism, and opposed issues such as LGBT rights and multiculturalism.
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In this, their outlook contrasted with the rampant individualism and self-seeking that preceded them in the Gilded Age and that returned in the 1920s (and in the 1990s and 2000s, which has been called 'the second Gilded Age').
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Rosenblatt argues that in the 20th century, an Anglo-American conception of liberalism, which emphasizes the protection of individual rights, pushed aside earlier French and German versions that aimed to temper individualism by stressing moral duties and state-building.
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Our prevailing ethos of individualism means that we tend to place all of the blame for an individual's crime squarely on their shoulders without questioning how powerful people and structures constrain the choices available to the least powerful people.
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But Deneen comes as a Jeremiah to announce that Tocqueville's fear that liberalism would eventually dissolve all these inheritances, leaving only a selfish individualism and soft bureaucratic despotism locked in a strange embrace, may now fully be upon us.
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This season, all of these brands cast some non-models, but "I do shows that don't have any street casting at all, and even when I'm casting experienced models, I'm always looking for their individualism as well," she adds.
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For decades, Silicon Valley has been ground zero for a vaguely utopian form of individualism — the idea that a single engineer with a laptop and an internet connection could change the world, or at least a long-established industry.
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He points to Japan, which has managed to achieve the lowest obesity rate in the developed world (4.2 percent in 2016) — through a naturally healthier diet, in part, but also through government interventions that run counter to American individualism.
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While much has been made about millennials and an assumed preference for "Instagram-worthy funerals," Olson thinks this emphasis on individualism may reflect more profound social and personal angst: "It's a way of exercising control over death," he says.
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It's true that identity politics is often illiberal, both in its emphasis on group experience over individualism and, in the web of moral absolutes — taboo words, sacred speakers, forbidden arguments — that it seeks to weave around left-liberal discourse.
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"We have blue hair in the show, white hair, long hair, ponytails, short hair – just a little bit of Redken Wind Blown Spray to give it a little bit of texture, but really it's celebrating the girl and individualism," Palau said.
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Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.
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In public, LaVar's style of play has always been anchored by his belief in brash individualism—that through grueling and persistent work, that by continually moving forward with an unyielding bent, there is no limit to what one can accomplish.
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I suspect so many of us have been embellishers, especially when we were young, in the stakes to abjure privilege, to claim uniqueness in the form of obstacles, to show our guts and thorny individualism in rising above ordinary roots.
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Where more social democratic governments in Europe responded to inequality with social spending, progressive taxes and generous welfare programs, the U.S.' commitment to rugged individualism and entrepreneurialism instead birthed models of communal ownership made possible by massive for-profit marketplaces.
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Instead of complex men with compelling ideas, bygone leaders like the Panthers are often flattened into leftist bros who fit a familiar, and quintessentially American archetype that is all about force and individualism, like the cowboys of the Wild West.
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"This season, we're looking back to the heady, crazy days of Soho," Phelan told Refinery29 of the collection, which was a super-charged look back at a time before Instagram, when things were less polished and people reveled in individualism.
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Just as it's almost impossible to think of popular narrative fiction without thinking of individualism and coming-of-age stories, it's hard to think of American culture without characters like Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield, Scout Finch, and, more recently, Oscar Wao.
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Under The Abaya, which is published by Niche Arabia in partnership with Cadillac, aims to showcase individualism at its best — personal style that's embedded in heritage, fully confident in its own sense of cultural identity, and connected to what's trending today.
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Sources: "Those who stayed: individualism, self-selection and cultural change during the age of mass migration" by A.S.B. Knudsen, 2019; "Exit, voice and political change: evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States" by M. Karadja and E. Prawitz, 2018
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And while the French banned the burqa to maintain the French values of individualism and human dignity, the Georgia proposal was purely based on national security issues, and was not specifically religious or directed at any specific group or organization.
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The idea of, say, George H. W. Bush or Ronald Reagan sporting beards is absurd; in their day, few Republican veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam viewed beards on the political class as anything more than tasteless hippie individualism.
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This model has been knocked around over the years, first by decolonization, then by decades of economic hardship, the growing stigmatization of cultural differences, the fervent individualism of new generations and globalization, which has narrowed the state's room for maneuver.
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Calling to mind precedents from Thoreau's humble dwelling at Walden Pond to the Unabomber's hide-out in the Montana woods, it evokes an often cranky, sometimes delusional do-it-yourself individualism that still runs deep in the grain of American consciousness.
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" Describing Rembrandt, he finds an exacting individualism visible in a manipulation of light "that bathes [Rembrandt's] portraits and his pictures [in] the very light of his thought […] a personal light in which we view things when we are thinking for ourselves.
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Deep in the heart of Texas' mythology rest some widely accepted axioms: the belief that individualism and strict limits on government made Texas great, and the opinion that any outside authority, especially the federal government, was to be regarded with suspicion.
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As we enter late modernity and recognize the limits of the radical autonomy and individualism which have defined it, the pendulum will correct itself with a swing toward more communitarian and humane values that recognize the interdependency of all humans.
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This looks like the opposite of alienated labor, not just because it seems like fun — it's not called "playing" for nothing — but because it transcends both the narrow individualism and the impersonal corporatism that defines so much of our working lives.
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Three churches were bombed, and with them three hotels catering to Western tourists, because often in the jihadist imagination Western Christianity and Western liberal individualism are the conjoined enemies of their longed-for religious utopia, their religious-totalitarian version of Islam.
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Still, Trump's self-invention is remarkable for its scale and depravity — the way he grasped how hyper-individualism, the money culture, simmering anger, and the collapse of the line between truth and falsehood could be channeled into a victorious presidential campaign.
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"We know that today's youth are very much into individualism and embracing the unique qualities of their peers," said Jim Gerbo, vice president of marketing at Sunny Delight Beverages, which auditioned more than 100 teenagers before choosing the final six.
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Putin's autocratic rhetoric directly taps into such beliefs, especially those formulated by the country's nineteenth-century Slavophile philosophers who derived their national identity in opposition to the West, following an old pattern of lashing out against dangerous foreign rationalism and individualism.
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In the real life of liberalism, Hefnerism endures as the effective philosophy of many liberal men, for whom sexual individualism justifies using women because hey, we're all cool consenting adults here, and caddishness blurs into predation when power differentials permit.
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Whatever comes in 2030 or 2040, whether or not a once-dominant Christianity is doomed to marginalization or merely in decline, we have a severe problem of rootlessness, hyper-individualism and anomie already — how do you think we got Trumpism?
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The new manifesto contains such phrases as: We do not believe in untrammelled free markets and: We reject the cult of selfish individualism More specifically, the manifesto pledges that: Workers' rights conferred on British citizens from our membership of the EU will remain.
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The sections on the Berkeley-led campus free speech movement are less so, and I would have liked to see a deeper engagement with the way the radical individualism of 1960s counterculture moved leftism away from a more collectivist and labor-oriented outlook.
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The fetishization of work and the increasingly long work week, self-help individualism and the power of positive thinking, the inspirational entrepreneurial success story, the nightmarish system that underlies and exacerbates these horrors — More Songs About Buildings and Food predicted it all.
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Despite its sometimes more cautionary aspects, Plainview's narrative arc now doubles as a motivational training session, a testament to what you too can achieve with a combination of rugged individualism, a relentlessly competitive nature, and an internal reservoir of skillfully concealed misanthropy.
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Gandhi absorbed many ideas osmotically during an era when a range of artists and thinkers, from William Morris to D. H. Lawrence, deplored the condition of human beings in industrial production and their entrapment in the cash nexus, and emphasized interdependence over individualism.
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But if Democrats are looking beyond 2018, and if they want to win back the erstwhile Democrats who backed Trump in 2016, they need an outlook that respects borders, takes heed of American individualism, and respects skepticism about taxes and big government.
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After the October 2000 Companion Records reissue of his 2200 private-press album "Age of Individualism" (credited to T. J. Hustler Metaphysical Synthesized Orchestra), Jones is now responsible for two of the strangest records in the past calendar year, if not this millennium.
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Ardent individualism and deep-seated reluctance to disrupt commerce combined with a weak social safety net, a deeply flawed healthcare system and a president with a visceral distrust of experts has made the United States fertile ground for a public health catastrophe.
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The album's 28 tracks, which include a tender transcription by Mr. Olafsson from Rameau's opera "Les Boréades," are a dual portrait and an experimental colloquy, exploring what these two composers share across centuries: pathbreaking individualism, and, at times, a synesthetic approach to music.
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Bound up in the fate of the city were even larger questions: Would America be able to manage the transition from the individualism and insularity that defined its 19th-century frontiers to the creative collaboration and competition of its fast-growing urban centers?
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An aggressive champion of individualism and self-expression, the primary message of singles like "Born This Way" heralded her entry to LGBTQ icon-hood in the pop music canon; her "Little Monsters" (the affectionate nickname for her most zealous fans), thrived on embracing the mantra.
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If we allow social consensus to be edited out by a tiny number of massively dominate content distribution platforms which are algorithmically bent on accelerating a kind of totalitarian individualism, the existential question that raises is how can we hope to maintain social cohesion?
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Since the election, many political scientists have suggested that racial resentment—defined by one scholar as a "moral feeling that blacks violate such traditional American values as individualism and self-reliance"—was a bigger factor in rallying white Americans to Mr Trump than economic anxiety.
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My hope for the 2016 election was to see a conservative candidate who would help heal our many racial, religious, and class divisions; work to defend the dignity of all people; and promote community-based politics, rather than sovereign individualism and the impersonal state.
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Teruo Kurosaki, author of a Japanese-language guidebook, "True Portland: Unofficial Guide for Creative People", says Japanese are interested in Portland not just because of its nifty gadgets or funky food, but because of its "future vision"—a combination of individualism, enterprise and greenery.
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"In an era of excessive individualism, our markings and modifications are viewed not as a sign of freakishness or outlier tendencies but as an expression of personal taste," Christine Rosen, a cultural historian, wrote last year in The Hedgehog Review, a journal of cultural criticism.
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She is as deeply attuned to the epochal change of our times – from radical individualism, alternative communities, the growing imbalance of power and money, extremist views, and queer politics to the rise of the Internet and social media – as Édouard Manet was to his.
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Liberals discovered how much they believed in their country's exceptionalism—the idea that the national experiment of immigration, democracy, and individualism would produce a country uniquely poised to lead the world—and how devastated they were to learn that it might never have been real.
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Fretting over late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century immigration, American mythmakers discovered that the Pilgrims, and New England as a whole, were perfectly cast as national founders: white, Protestant, democratic, and blessed with an American character centered on family, work, individualism, freedom, and faith.
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All you really need to know about the story is that it took multiple men to cook up this pottage, which hinges on another extraterrestrial invasion and humanity battling aliens as other familiar struggles erupt: technological determinism versus technophobia, secular universalism versus heroic individualism.
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The American people — who took undeveloped land populated by people who had yet to discover the morality of individualism, free enterprise, inalienability of rights and technological discoveries — are being asked to apologize for their greatness by opening America's borders as a form of atonement.
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He forged a livelihood with his voice and pen, but fundamentally was not a self-made man as he painted himself in a famous speech, an image through which modern conservatives and libertarians have adopted him as a proponent of their brand of individualism.
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The modest difference in attitude between the messengers will vanish, presumably because any real criticism — including any skepticism about this or any war — might impede the movie's embrace of heroic individualism for the greater good, which here largely translates as vague national struggle and sacrifice.
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In a country that mythologizes rugged individualism, in a world where fewer Americans vote in presidential elections than watch the Super Bowl — that idealization of brawn — it would seem absurd to argue that you would not do everything you could to reverse your disability.
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The ethos of me-first individualism, unrestrained capitalism, opportunistic globalization, liberal immigration and release from traditional sexual norms suited elites of both political parties, but it was not so good for the working-class, tradition-minded Americans who are said to form the country's backbone.
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Yet this year's best-picture crop may have provided an answer — in the notion that there is no one American story, but a variety of specific and unique American stories, and in the idea that America is a nation of both individualism and pluralism.
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Mishra's book has flaws, like its overreliance on Rousseau, but there is no "glibness" to his statement that "most people have found the notions of individualism and social mobility to be unrealizable in practice," even in the United States, where mobility rates have fallen.
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But if the halcyon days of elite sports in Finland seem like a distant memory, the contours of a new, far weirder era of national sports prosperity have already taken shape, one that reflects the wave of individualism still growing in this young country.
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Individualism had long been a force in American politics—former president Herbert Hoover called it "the primary force of American civilization for three centuries" almost a century ago—but "personal responsibility" took it a step further, dividing our society into hundreds of millions of individuals.
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Thus Hyman's book implicitly advocates for a Romantic individualism against all "isms"; and this is what makes him invaluable to young artists trying to discover themselves in relation to their experience of the present and against the conformist forces of the art market and academe.
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But a general lack of enthusiasm for this kind of participation — alongside a steady stream of political rhetoric that glorifies individualism — might help explain some of the attitudes people seem to have about political parties and especially about events like state conventions and caucuses.
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So far, WelinderShi has deployed all of its first fund into five consumer brands with the potential to capture China's increasingly sophisticated middle-class, among whom Welinder observed a "growing individualism away from collectivism that is positive for lifestyle brands," Welinder told TechCrunch in a phone interview.
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" This is a fancy way of saying that you need ideas and trends and forces in tension with each other (community and individualism, the secular and the sacred, new ideas and settled consensus, younger and older generations) to ignite what he calls "the blaze of creativity.
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" Schaller and Park found in experiments (and by comparing countries culturally) that higher levels of disease or pathogen threat increase "emphasis on conformity to existing cultural traditions and norms" while lower threat levels encourage individualism "defined in part by a tolerance for (and even encouragement of) deviance.
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Speaking of Cage, Dirty Cooper wears his Man In Black bad-assness the way Cage's Sailor wore his rock n' roll snake-skinned jacket in Wild at Heart, as a symbol of his individualism and personal freedom, except it's hardened and rotted into something hollow and toxic.
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"There is a very consistent and reliable trend where all indicators of individualism [have] been on the rise over the course of the last 100 years," University of Waterloo psychologist Igor Grossman, who was not involved in Grubbs' work, told an audience at the SPSP meeting.
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Historians and experts point to other factors that also contributed to new views of the Second Amendment, including America's historically high levels of gun ownership, the proliferation of cheaper guns, the rise of Jacksonian democracy and individualism, the replacement of militias with a professional army, and Reconstruction.
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As Kevin Williamson observed last year, the 1950's findings of Fortune writer William Whyte, who "interviewed dozens of important CEOs and found that they mostly rejected the ethos of rugged individualism in favor of a more collectivist view of the world," are still relevant today.
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She sees the ascent of exercise culture in part as a continuation of women's reclamation of their bodies in the 1970s, and in part as an example of the retreat from public concerns and move toward individualism that many of her peers made around the same time.
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The refusal to grant victors legitimacy bundles together so much about America today: the coarseness of our discourse; the blind tribalism coloring our debates; the elevation of individualism far above common purpose; the ethos that everybody should and can feel like a winner on every day.
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Shying away from a discussion about sacrifice weakens our sense of common duty, and promotes atomistic individualism among citizens who are adept at being angry, but increasingly see each other as fanatics who are unwilling to revisit their own opinions or compromise any of their priorities.
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France's idea of an Anglo-Saxon model has meant many things over the last century, sometimes referring to liberal capitalism, rampant individualism, consumerism or, in the view of President Charles de Gaulle, the threat of a global hegemony based on American power and the English language.
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His big idea is that during the first half of the 20th century, the United States created a set of large, powerful institutions that dominated national life, and then, in the second half of the century, the national culture moved away from these institutions and toward individualism.
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In " Suicide of the West ," the conservative intellectual Jonah Goldberg argues that progressive activists—deluded by wokeness into the false belief that Western civilization has made the world worse—are systematically dismantling the institutions fundamental to an enlightened society, such as individualism, capitalism, and free speech.
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It hired the first woman to coach its women's national team, encouraged individualism in its style of play, started a youth movement and largely dismantled a veteran team of masterly technical skill that won the 23 World Cup in a penalty shootout over the United States.
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As for the ultimate fate of this character, that appears to be contingent on the outcome of an ongoing contest between a red-state ideology of extreme individualism, preached and practiced by the city's rich white conservatives, and the civic necessities of a more diverse metropolis.
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"Crazy Rich Asians," a busy, fizzy movie winnowed from Kevin Kwan's sprawling, dishy novel, sets up a series of clashes — between tradition and individualism, between the heart's desire and familial duty, between insane wealth and prudent upward mobility — that are resolved with more laughter than tears.
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And I'm drawing attention to it because it's an increasingly exotic and important holdout against so many developments in higher education — the stress on vocational training, the treatment of students as fickle consumers, the elevation of individualism over a shared heritage — that have gone too far.
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The feds busted a ring of bribery and fraud at high-level colleges and it broke through in a big way, thanks to the star-studded cast—and the gall of already-rich people perpetuating the myth of merit in a country that is supposedly about individualism.
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DON'T: Express entitlement to United States government funds for decadent pleasure tours you, with your immense wealth, could easily afford yourself because America's delusional obsession with rugged individualism deters voters from pushing for an overhaul of the tax code that might mitigate our staggering income disparity!
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Not only was the drive back to Queens long enough to make trips infrequent, but with the high of our newfound class mobility came crushing paranoia that the tentacles of American individualism, recklessness and narcissism were coming for me, and so my parents clamped down even harder.
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He reprises, in rosy if not Pinkerian hues, the long peace and our advance toward an era of declining violence; we moved from an age where divine authority sponsored our institutions and values to a human-centered age of liberal individualism, where values were self-generated.
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According to a prominent Finnish political historian, Pauli Kettunen of the University of Helsinki, after the civil war Finnish employers promoted the ideal of "an independent freeholder farmer and his individual will to work" and successfully used this idea of heroic individualism to weaken worker unions.
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His acolytes, some of whom might consider themselves to be walking in the tradition of rugged American individualism, should note that they are in fact taking marching orders — "Rules for Life," no less — from a line-toeing Canadian, preaching a philosophy not of American defiance but of Canadian deference.
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Said to be the cultural offspring of yuppies and hipsters, yuccies are a cross between "the yuppie's new money thirst for yachts and recognition with the hipster's anti-ambition, smoke-laced individualism," said self-proclaimed yuccie David Infante, who coined the term in a Mashable post last June.
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As far back as the 1930s, when the popularity of cowboy films helped jeans make the leap from workwear into the wardrobes of Hollywood stars, denim has been understood to stand for something larger about the American spirit: for rugged individualism, informality and a classless respect for hard work.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will happily abandon their individualism for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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Millie, tellingly, is named for Millamant, the heroine of Congreve's "The Way of the World," whose most famous scene has her and her suitor negotiating in detail the terms and conditions of their love match—demonstrating the charm and importance of a social contract over unfettered Hobbesian individualism.
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That doesn't explain everything, but it explains a lot: the obsession with racial purity, the near-religious worship of the superhuman father-leader, the militarism and hostility and feverish ultranationalism, and the expectation that citizens will abandon their individualism happily for the betterment of the race-based national collective.
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It means that Takakura wants to complement Japan's well-honed possession style of short, triangular passing — sometimes compared to Barcelona's tiki-taka brand — with a new freedom for players to express their individualism in a country, and a team, that more often has prized the collectivity of the group.
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Strictly speaking, this is a children's book, but it celebrates some of the great features of the American character: individualism, gentle good humor, tolerance, the kindness of strangers, the lure of the open road, and the optimistic sense that — despite everything — better things might be waiting around the corner.
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Writing in this magazine in 2004, Sasha Frere-Jones drew a distinction between the shiny sound-booth finish of corporate hip-hop—Kanye, Dr. Dre, and others—and the stubborn individualism of artists like Madlib, who stick to their samples instead of paying musicians to compose for them.
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In an academic paper on love and marriage published in 2014, Dr. Finkel and his co-authors argued that since 1965 American marriages have formed around the ideal of "expressive individualism," which centers on the creation of individual identity and the charting of a path of personal growth.
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Greatly influenced by the European avant-garde and the renewed interest in classicism, many artists associated with this group focused on portraiture, depicting Mexico City's flappers and members of the homosexual community in a celebration of cosmopolitanism that ran counter to the mural painters' disdain for bourgeois individualism.
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If we want to understand why millennials are the way they are, then we have to look at the increased competition between workers, the increased isolation of workers from each other, the extreme individualism of modern American society, and the widespread problems of debt and economic security facing this generation.
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How do we reconcile that the same sense of self-reliance and individualism that forged American revolutionary ideals such as religious freedom, and that moved transcendentalists to support the abolitionist and suffragette movements, has also led to the extreme forms of racism, misogyny, nationalism, and Islamophobia we see so clearly today?
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It's far more true, however, to say that the same cultural forces that led to the prosperity gospel's proliferation in America — individualism, an affinity for ostentatious and charismatic leaders, the Protestant work ethic, and a cultural obsession with the power of "positive thinking" — shape how we, as a nation, approach politics.
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"A realistic theory of democracy must be built, not on the French Enlightenment, on British liberalism, or on American Progressivism, with their devotion to human rationality and monadic individualism, but instead on the insights of the critics of these traditions, who recognized that human life is group life," they write.
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There was perhaps no one more adept at bridging the two increasingly estranged halves of the modern Republican Party: a base of white voters animated by fear and resentment, and an establishment class that used half-baked economic theories and paeans to individualism to line the pockets of the wealthy.
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What we're sort of battling is individualism, because you simply cannot deal with a lot of the things that we're going to have to be dealing with in the next 50 to 100 years if you think about yourself as an individual, if countries think about themselves as individual countries.
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She has written papers on a number of topics, including Congress's delegation of authority to federal agencies, her view that so-called independent agencies — like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — should answer to the president, and that dignity under the law is best derived from freedom and individualism, not government intervention.
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As a black, literature-loving kid, growing up in an all-white neighborhood, and one that became increasingly difficult for me when I entered middle and high school in the 73s, he was a lifesaver, an emblem of individualism who seemed able to transcend his industry's facile commercialism and easily disposable style.
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"[NYU professor] Larry Mead, in his new book The Burdens of Freedom, has argued that individualism —a key source of Western and American order, dynamism and strength — is a distinctly First World attribute that is difficult to impart to outsiders and that it is key to maintaining our freedoms and prosperity," Wax says.
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Near the very end of The Bell Curve, he writes, somewhat euphemistically, "that group differences in cognitive ability, so desperately denied for so long, can best be handled — can only be handled — by a return to individualism" rather than with policies that seek to specifically address or remedy racism or racial disadvantage.
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Maréchal-Le Pen's warm welcome by some writers on the right belongs to the long tradition of American conservatives, especially those who are Catholic (like Douthat and Dougherty) or Orthodox (like Dreher), looking to European sources for inspiration because they feel the American political tradition is too infected with liberalism and protestant individualism.
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While my colleague covers much ground in this provocative piece, I want to address one of his specific concerns — that universities ought to recommit themselves to the Western canon to combat Marxism, socialism and anything else that obstructs or challenges the conservative principles of individualism, capitalism and the morality of wealth creation.
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Although he benefited from the support of working-class whites who resented affirmative action, busing, mass immigration, sexual liberation and cultural liberalism, Reagan himself was animated by an optimistic individualism that had more in common with Chamber of Commerce boosterism than it did with the defensive and combative communitarianism of conservative populism.
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But if they are "callous and violent," to use the pursed-lip language of Williamson's firing, they reflect back an essential fact about our respectable reproductive rights regime — which is justified with the hazy theology of individualism, but implemented with lethal violence against the most vulnerable of human bodies every single day.
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With works by Pope L., Liz Magic Laser, Zoe Leonard, and many others, this show turns an astute eye towards some of the most relevant and troubling issues of our time, drawing attention to white supremacy, shallow free-market individualism, and leaders who are driven by self-interest rather than the common good.
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New New World: Our columnist Li Yuan writes that China has started blurring out the earrings of some young male pop stars in television and internet appearances, and that it has banned soccer players from showing their tattoos, in a broad effort to obscure anything that celebrates money worship, hedonism or individualism.
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Like most conservatives, I favor a more limited role for our robed archons, I admired Scalia's originalism precisely because it establishes plausible (if, of course, debatable) limits on judicial activism, and I regard Kennedy's Casey ruling as a vapid Emersonian effusion, whose paean to individualism was really a license to kill inconvenient innocents.
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Far more than the concert it first appears to be, this invigorating production — created by and starring the former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, with precision-tooled choreography by Annie-B Parson — is an unexpectedly hopeful paean to collective individualism, to the shared pleasures and anxieties of this outsize nation of oddballs.
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