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How Modern Individualism Fractured Social Life
- Modern individualism progressed from mediating institutions to atomised self-expression driven by late 20th century economic change.
- Mark contrasts first individualism's coffee houses and clubs with the second individualism's flight from commitment and dissolving social intermediaries.
Neoliberalism Disenchants Politics By Economic Logic
- William Davies' idea reframes neoliberalism as the disenchantment of politics by economics, where market logic invades public life.
- Mark explains this means economics becomes the operating system for culture, measuring everything with metrics and efficiency.
Competition Became A Personal Operating System
- Competition has leaked out of markets into personal identity, health, romance and online presence, producing constant self-marketing and anxiety.
- Mark uses examples like step counts, dating data and Instagram self-branding to show how people now compete as economic agents.