american cultural imperialism has lead to the whole internet seemingly getting this forced desperation for a community onto it, because americans are a terminally alienated mass of people who have been yearning for connections with their fellow citizens for decades once the whole manifest destiny rugged individualism thing became largely a thing of the past and urbanization took hold
@nyx I've said to a lot of people back home this is an incredibly selfish country and absolutely nobody recognizes it.
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@sullybiker it really is weird how this whole "rugged individualism" mindset of being selfish and mistrustful that may have made sense back when america was mostly a frontier where your neighbor could very well kill you and still your stuff has just refused to die. but imo it's because america just has no coherent culture otherwise, and that made it susceptible to what we have today where the US is just a disenfranchised mass of people who valorize suffering and hardship and are incapable of functioning as a nation while also not being able to go fully into a complete rejection of the state. it's the kind of environment that was ripe for a class of kleptocratic neolibs to gut all public infrastructure and turn the US into a free trade zone with a standing army and militarized police force
