RE MAVERICK MADISON AVENUE HOLLYWOOD FRONTIER SOLIPSIST

This was a comment on DK's site recently.

A very perceptive remark.

This has been the thinly veiled 'Wagnerian' 'dream' of Western market capitalistic democracy:

'Perhaps another trend was operative: let's call it a pyschological/marketing/Hollywood dream of everyman a millionaire, a narcisisim in which the self became the ultimate moral compass, and, the group or society became the enemy. Marketers, lobbyists as agents of "capitalists" (Republicans), exploited this adroitly from Reagan to Obama. And here we are.'

Let's just also add:

(Democrats, too.)

And: EVERYMAN A GOD

What few, perhaps, may acknowledge, or realize, is that the rugged individualism of the American frontier past is, also, the anarchism, narcissism, and perhaps solipsism, of the modern 'Western' predicament, albeit in maverick cowboy attire.