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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
Pretty amazing to pidgeonhole people as collectivists out of one corner of the mouth while declaring immunity from pidgeonholing based on race out of the other...
The thing is, that is not the only 'brand' or perspective of individualism which exists.
Yeah, our libertarian-types are big on 'branding'. That shouldn't be surprising, however, considering that...
(a) All things libertarian-type devolve to an exercise in sophistry. The training effect of this 'branding' helps make that sophistry more effective.
(b) It's all an astro-turf 'movement' to begin with, so 'branding' is a way of making it seem real. The 'liberty' sheeple can have their own in-words (like 'statist') without actually being "in" any association with each other at all.
(c) It's time of creation, post WW2, is exactly when the science and practice of mass-marketing/'branding'/politics-as-commodity really came into fruition and widespread being.
And notice, they do this 'branding' constantly, it's in everything they say.
They stole, or quite literally the Koch bros c1976 bought, the word 'libertarian'. At some point I wouldn't be surprised if the US based ACLU-type 'civil libertarians' bail on the now tarnished L-word... just like the US based RWAs have.
They've tried to 'brand' the word 'individualism' too, as you noted.
And their WOAT is that they try to 'brand' the word 'liberty' itself. Like in "ZOMG, you're not for the L.Ron (
Over)
lution... why do you HATE LIBERTY !!!1!". As if their ultra-rightest/fascist neo-feudal privatized police state they espouse has anything to do with what anyone else would associate with liberty.