Rugged Individualism Today

In america today we still struggle with people who don t live up to the idea of rugged individualism.

Rugged individualism today.

I believe it isn t really called by that term but people know it as the american dream. Frederick jackson turner should have coined it in his 1893 essay on the frontier but he didn t. What s more when you adopt this mentality of me plus you equals more you attract other people with that same mindset and everyone grows together. This is an oddity but for a very long time the term rugged individualism seems not to have existed.

If rugged individualism is your growth ceiling teamwork is the hammer that will break through it. In america today your life chances depend largely on how you started where you grew up and how much your parents earned. During the 1950s a decade of economic prosperity free market capitalism and mccarthyism such views were controversial. The term rugged individualism was coined by president herbert hoover in 1928 as a way to describe the american philosophy of self reliance and the need to be free of government control and this ideology is the problem.

People who aren t familiar with both are those who think reaching your lifetime goals don t require any effort or any struggles. And rugged individualism continues to be a part of our mental makeup. It s a win win scenario. After all the rugged individualism of herbert hoover was believed by.

The myth of the rugged individual. Calls to break down the federalism structure whether by strengthening executive power or turning to some kind of parliamentary system or allowing the courts to take over our social and economic decisions are a kind of declaration of war against.