Overwhelming objective culture forces individuals to exaggerate their peculiarities

Evidence

From one angle life is made infinitely more easy in the sense that stimulations, interests, and the taking up of time and attention, present themselves from all sides and carry it in a stream which scarcely requires any individual efforts for its ongoing. But from another angle, life is composed more and more of these impersonal cultural elements and existing goods and values which seek to suppress peculiar personal interests and incomparabilities. As a result, in order that this most personal element be saved, extremities and peculiarities and individualizations must be produced and they must be over-exaggerated merely to be brought into the awareness even of the individual himself. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why blasé detachment coexists with extreme individuation — both are defenses; supports the reading that Julius’s erratic witness is a survival strategy. — connects to: The metropolis reduces individuals to negligible cogs in an objective culture — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760; Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 654; Individual receptive capacity is finite while objective culture grows infinitely — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 33 (+5 more)

Related

• The metropolis reduces individuals to negligible cogs in an objective culture (similarity 0.87)
• Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. (similarity 0.85)
• Individual receptive capacity is finite while objective culture grows infinitely (similarity 0.85)
• Objective and subjective culture grow by fundamentally different logics (similarity 0.83)
• Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other (similarity 0.81)
• Depersonalized products carry more cultural significance than personal ones (similarity 0.81)
• Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena (similarity 0.81)
• Objective culture grows far faster than subjective individual culture (similarity 0.81)
• People inevitably perceive others through generalization because full individual knowledge is impossible (similarity 0.80)
• Market-driven exaggeration of eccentricity makes the individual complicit in his own commodification. (similarity 0.80)
• Objective culture alienates the individual’s accomplishments into impersonal form. (similarity 0.79)
• Expanded social circles throw the individual back upon himself (similarity 0.78)
• Individuality increases as the social circle expands (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individual receptive capacity is finite while objective culture grows infinitely #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 33
• Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 654
• People inevitably perceive others through generalization because full individual knowledge is impossible #qualifies (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 173