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>>10787145
>I believe we're living in a society that promotes narcissism and individualism
You are correct imo with the first part but not the later. Our society does not promote individualism. I live in Budapest and on Friday nights i often take a walk in the city centre, and i see that the people out and about are essentially identical.
Walk past one bar, this is the bar where people go where they feel like rebels - just a bunch of 20 year olds dressed the same feeling "individual" about being a rebel but they have no idea what they are rebelling against - they are just there to fit into a certain image.
Walk past a sophisticated Bar - everyone there is just there to fit into a certain image.

You could blindfold me and make me have a conversation with 3 people in a specific setting and i wouldn't be able to distinguish them after because every is the same.
Our society is monotonous, homogenous and boring. Fuck i'm also probably trying to fit into something too. There is no escape, everyone tries to fit an image. Human beings are stupid creatures, they are unable to use their brains because it hurts to think, so we stick to the superficialities because it's easy. Thats why Image is the most important thing if you want to integrate into society (which ofcourse you do, we are also unfortunately very social creatures in our nature - why else do we talk to ourselves when we are alone if not to replicate there being another person).
There is no escape unfortunately. Once you realise that human society is just a mosaic (each mosaic representing a certain image/group) then when you look close up to the mosaic you see each piece and how ugly they are.

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