{"article":{"id":33360,"heading":"  The Group Offers Conformity - not genuine community","author":"  judith mpls","created":"2003-03-06 17:57:52","modified":"2003-03-06 17:57:52","last_modified":"Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:57:52","article":"<p>\"In terms of future renewal, much of it will depend on a commitment to individualism. <br><br> \"The problem is that the group usually offers conformity, not genuine community.\" <br><br> \"As in the early Middle Ages, we see the dissolution of interiority, and the loss or denigration of individual judgment and achievement.\" <br><br> \"The drift in the U.S. today is toward the submergence of the self into the Mass Mind, a trend that is powerfully encouraged by corporate culture and the new technology.\"<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"  From the book 'The Twilight of American Culture&quot; by Morris Freeman.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/33360.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}