As Jessica Valenti points out in her new book Why Have Kids?, "It used to be that parenting was thought of as a community exercise, with help from family and neighbors... now it's positioned as all-American individualism".
You may say so if you're careful to add that it also performed functions of photography, fiction, theatre, theology, and social anthropology — all with an individualism that engendered continual audacities of technique and style.
"It's all about individualism, egotism, everyone for themselves, and the only way to judge human success is the check you get at the end of the month," J me Cahuzac, a Socialist Party member of France's National Assembly, said in a radio interview, according to Reuters.
Douglas [46] states that all worldviews (individualism, fatalism, hierarchy, egalitarianism) are needed, and governance solutions that impose one organising principle will fail.
This is what being an American has supposedly been about all along: Individualism, freedom, destiny.
Well, its critique of I'm-all-right-Jack individualism is as relevant as it was shortly after Thatcher, even if Daldry's production threatens to let the present day off the hook.
The thing that really bothered me about last year's team was the individualism during all the losses.
And it's time to say to those who think it's all about unchecked individualism: no, it's not about me, the individual.
PROGRAM 11: "Ideology and Individualism," an all-Shostakovich program with "October," "Song of the Forests" and the Symphony No. 10 in E minor.
However, the Pew figures also suggest that there may be more resilience and rigor in American Catholic belief than the narrative of a church all-but-undone by individualism and modernity would suggest.
