[akira2501]

> but there was a semblance of a baseline.

How did you form that conclusion? I think the history of this country itself forms the greatest counter example to this point.

> I feel like we need a generation that strikes out against the notion of identity altogether

This feels like misplaced austerity. Human beings living their short lives absolutely have the right to their own identity, these are natural rights and desires.

This idea that we're going to fix this problem through deeper collectivism and removal of the individual instead of addressing the obvious problems of mass communication in our society is somewhat frightening to me.