Individualism and filter bubbles fragment human society the way dams fragment watersheds

Evidence

Things like the American obsession with individualism, customized filter bubbles, and personal branding—anything that insists on atomized, competing individuals striving in parallel, never touching—does the same violence to human society as a dam does to a watershed. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the author’s earlier watershed and ‘bag of skin’ framing from previous chapters of this book — the self as a slippery intersection rather than a discrete unit. — connects to: Individualism treats humans as autonomous accumulators detached from community. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 551; Societal ills stem partly from separation from reciprocal land love — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 441
• DEFINE: Extends the core definitional claim driving the book: attention/community modeled on watersheds rather than dams.