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Pot, Selfies, and Facebook—Welcome to the New Individualism

After analyzing a new Pew survey, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that we're in a new and deeper "age of individualism." In a riff off 1 Corinthians 13, here's how Douthat described our tendency to disconnect from each other:

In the future, it seems, there will be only one "ism"—Individualism—and its rule will never end. As for religion, it shall decline; as for marriage, it shall be postponed; as for ideologies, they shall be rejected; as for patriotism, it shall be abandoned; as for strangers, they shall be distrusted. Only pot, selfies and Facebook will abide—and the greatest of these will probably be Facebook.

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