David Brin has made the point that lots of the Mass Media consumed in the US carries the propaganda messages of [Suspicion Of Authority] and Toler Ance (z2002-10-15- Brin Libertarian). This theme is so prevalent, and so obvious, that even though you can probably see where I am going with this - and hate the inevitable conclusion - you aren't going to dispute the core fact. You have to sit there and accept one of the most galling things that a bunch of dedicated individualists can ever realize - that you were trained to be individualists by the most relentless campaign of public indoctrination in history, suckling your love of rebellion and eccentricity from a society that - evidently, at some level - wants you to be that way! But another theory is that this is more of a release valve, like the princes in Saudi Arabia giving money to the [Extrem Ist] IsLam schools to try and buy some peace...

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