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marmar

(77,053 posts)
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:33 AM Feb 2021

Texas Proves We Live in a Culture of Toxic Individualism


Texas Proves We Live in a Culture of Toxic Individualism
There’s only one solution.

Jessica Wildfire
Feb 18 · 6 min read


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It gets worse every year.

We’re finding it harder to go anywhere without running into toxic individualism, whether it’s aggressive drivers or jerks who answer their phones in movie theaters. Asking someone to endure the slightest inconvenience sends them into a blind rage.

....(snip)....

Toxic Individualism Has Corrupted our Politics.

It’d be one thing if toxic individualism remained at the level of Karens and Todds yelling at cashiers.

It hasn’t.

Toxic individualism has reached the highest levels of our government. We’ve managed to get rid of the worst one, but we’ve still got a long way to go. The Texas snow storm serves as a disturbing example. On the one hand, we’ve got senators like Ted Cruz jetting off on a vacation to Cancun of all places while their constituents battle freezing homes.

On the other hand, we’ve got Texas mayors like Tim Boyd, who tells his own citizens they’re “lazy” for wanting heat and electricity. He goes on to declare that in a snow storm that’s left millions completely exposed to the elements, “the strong will survive and the weak will parish.” ............(more)

https://theapeiron.co.uk/texas-proves-we-live-in-a-culture-of-toxic-individualism-f25b0bfb3360




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Texas Proves We Live in a Culture of Toxic Individualism (Original Post) marmar Feb 2021 OP
The rich get together Ollie Garkie Feb 2021 #1
When Tim Boyd can spell, we can have a discussion. LuckyLib Feb 2021 #2
parish the thought Skittles Feb 2021 #4
Well done! Prof. Toru Tanaka Feb 2021 #5
aw man Skittles Feb 2021 #6
and gun humpers are THE worst Skittles Feb 2021 #3

Ollie Garkie

(185 posts)
1. The rich get together
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 12:27 PM
Feb 2021

And form paper collective corporations specifically to avoid "individual responsibility" the hypocrites

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