Well, wel, well... Apparently, #ToxicIndividualism is a thing! So sick of leaders and followers who don't understand how everything is #Interconnected! #TrueEvil! (In my #Jungian interpretation, "That which separates us from God / #Nature / Each Other").

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/202005/how-america-fell-into-toxic-individualism

#MAGA #RightWing #ToxicMasculinity #Patriarchy #RWLibertarians #LackOfCompassion #PowerStructures #BadLeaders

If you want to understand #Texas / #US #Southern culture / #ToxicIndividualism better, explore this memory with me:

I was briefly visiting someone's home in earlyish 2020 in the Dallas area (I will omit the context for privacy reasons, but let it suffice to say that it was a professional visit), and I couldn't help but notice enormous framed "Don't Tread on Me" and/or "Come and Take It" flags (I can't remember which, or if it was both, but likely just the latter) hanging in their living room, along with a tower of toilet paper packages (would've been enough for 5-10 households to survive the brief shortage) in the closet.

It may be that they had been stockpiling toilet paper "of old," but most likely, they rushed and bought up all the toilet paper they could get their hands on when they heard of the shortage.

I did not know them well, and did not have an opportunity (nor indeed the inclination) to inquire about it.

Cross reference: "Rolling coal" (a very stupid diesel truck mod)

A nation of citizens and immigrants bound together by the law.

Not anymore. Everyone knows better. #toxicindividualism
Look around. The pandemic showed us. 45/7 isn’t the problem our fellow citizens are—citizens who believe they are above the law yet who will run to those same legal institutions when something goes wrong.