In america today your life chances depend largely on how you started where you grew up and how much your parents earned.
Myth of rugged individualism.
Rugged individualism is a myth.
It matters not whether it s seen or being divorced from the predominant reality unseen.
Destroying the myth that anti maskers are rugged individualists.
More than anything however crediting edison alone plays into our american mythos of rugged individualism.
It has lent itself to the companion myth of american exceptionalism because the thinking goes that with our ruggedly individualistic natures this country has been raised above all others and it is our destiny to enforce our hegemony.
We all have origin myths and ours needs revising.
Supposedly it was rugged individualism that pushed the frontier ever westward and made the continent safe for ruggedly individualistic entrepreneurs to build the most spectacular economy the world has ever seen.
The specious philosophy of rugged individualism has caused much ill to this country.
The light bulb goes off and in a moment of inspiration he invents the light bulb.
It has lent itself to the companion myth of american exceptionalism because that thinking goes with our ruggedly individualistic mythology that this country has been raised above all others and it is our destiny to enforce our hegemony.
The principle of rugged individualism is one of the foundational myths of american culture.
The more we think rugged individualism is the problem the bigger the real.
Individualism is a good thing.
Like perhaps all myths this rugged individualism mythology is about what people want to believe whether it s true or not.
They were helped a great deal by the government and a strong community spirit.
Our culture likes the story of this lone inventor genius toiling away in his lonely lab until eureka.
The specious philosophy of rugged individualism has caused much ill to this country.
Early americans built this land on rugged individualism.
The american dream is really a myth cooked up by self centered people who see no contradiction between praising the bravery of mirgrants and hunting.
The myth of the rugged individual.