spiked-politics - Questioning the New Conformism:
"It is in upholding the human spirit of self-determination that spiked insists upon our right to make the wrong choices. This does not mean we want to fetishise the idea of individual lifestyle choice. That is always narrow and distorted. Historically, the emergence of genuine choices and alternatives in society has been dependent upon more collective outlooks and actions. But such a collective outlook will be impossible to forge, unless we first have a more active sense of self. The Good Society will not be debated and built by a community of informed and passive consumers, but by people with a sense of themselves as morally autonomous subjects, with the freedom and ability to make choices about real life and question everything without fear or favour."
