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An absolutely must-read. Excerpt. And don't forget to order the original book :-).
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"AS RIESMAN STATES IN The Lonely Crowd, modes of conformity have always existed, and there's nothing inherently wrong with their existence. Kings have employed soldiers and parents have revoked desserts to ensure that their underlings stay in line. But young people today have tools of expression unimaginable to people a century ago. The power and responsibility held by practically anyone with an Internet connection can often be great.
What Riesman did argue for was autonomy. He urged individuals to find "the nerve to be oneself when that self is not approved of by the dominant ethic of a society." In the final pages of The Lonely Crowd, Riesman describes "the autonomous" as "those who on the whole are capable of conforming to the behavioral norms of their society … but are free to choose whether to conform or not.""