Are We Being Conformists?

In what you referrd to is a kind of deeply passive, aggressive authoritarianism. It's this much more subtle kind of thing where people are lured into this complacency and timidity. And analysis, i regarded this essay before i started it as, oh, this will be a nice thing in terms of reading a foundational text for american thinking. But that this has been so thoroughly internalized in our culture now. Our culture actually respects and prizes individuality explicitly and in its artistic creations. So 'm glad to hear this other perspective, that you're saying, that this actually still is a message that people need to hear and really internalize. Because even if you think you're