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In praise of - individuality.

WAS Oscar Wilde anticipating text, email and the internet?

Did he realise how society would dissolve into one amorphous lump when he pronounced: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Because doesn't it seem individuality is disappearing faster than Coisty's team options, that we seem entirely incapable of independent thought? For example? EL James writes Fifty Shades of Groin Activity for bored housewives and suddenly the world starts to read for the first time, despite the fact the writing is close to mince.

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