The American cult of individualism

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It looks like collective psychosis, but of course it is indoctrination.

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Is it?

Individualism, used in the way Americans seem to use it, not seems to be nearly meaningless but if it means anything at all, it is deeply anti-individualist.

Yes, obviously it in fact only crushes the individual (except in a tiny minority of cases - the wealthy - for whom it allows complete fruition of every personal impulse and whim).  But taking it at face value - the sort of philosophy of individualism (capitalism, etc), that all Americans seem to accept till it kills them.