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Social media has created digital silos that have swallowed users whole, demanding that they display their individualism in a way that attracts followers or risk being shunned and alone in electronic hell.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the concepts of individualism and self-sufficiency began to pervade U.S. culture and politics.

When Trump spoke on Wednesday, he played up the old tropes of rugged individualism for America and said our allies “profited at our expense.”

This experience of collective stress exists in conflict with an American society that worships individualism.

“Not to the surreal or even unique individualism in your art, but to your humanism.”