Focus on a collective, mutual existance creates bright individualities; focus on individuality creates the opposite.
Of course, one is free to offer a counter-statement, saying that in a collective which tries to bring up "averageness", a bright personality is noticeable far easier than in a society that tries to make each personality be bright. However, when viewing these supposedly colourful personalities, one may notice that they, in fact, are merely groups of people presuming to be unique - which, as one may, then, guess, is rather incorrect.
In fact, personalities seem to shrink because of the multitude of apparent choices and freedoms - one is free to choose a path - however, each path is in a sense predetermined, and one doesn't really need to think or fight to preserve one's viewpoints. On the other hand, in an atmosphere of a personality suppression and lack of "alternatives", one has to make up their own way instead of just picking up something that is a trend.
Ironic.
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Figured to put this separately as an aside.
ReplyDeleteOf course there are bright individualities in the unoppressed world as well. But just that the whole approach that pampers person's "individual" decisions, choices, this, that, underlines independance of an individual and so forth actually achieves a perfect uniformness of all the said individuals - they're all the same, following the same messiah and chanting after the same prophets. Heck, they even wear the same prophets' rags to be more like their spiritual leaders.