Individualism my a...

There are many individuals with their own opinions and their own way of looking at things, but there is no such thing as individualism. As our government wants to blame everything and anything that is going wrong in our society on individualism, I get more and more pissed off. Where are our values and what is the norm we hold people up to? We are social beings and depending on context filter our daily life to make sense of it. We subdivide people and situations in categories to give them meaning and the means to talk about them. We create new norms and values everyday of our lives. We innovate and change!

When our government tells us we are growing more and more detached from society each day, don’t care for each other anymore and are only asking the what’s in it for me question, I have just one response to that. Wake up to the changes around you. Stop talking and start listening! Observe what is happening with an open mind and don't try to force your stupid values on us! Yes, they are stupid when you have to force them instead of enforce them! The only reason you blame everything on individualism is because you refuse to let go of old categories that used to make sense of ‘your’ society. People have moved on and found new ways to make sense of their lives, time for you to do the same!