saker är inte bortkastade, de ser bara annorlunda ut?

"But if we were truly living in a time of unparalleled personal choice, where was all the fanfare? As I thought about it, it made sense that this sort of freedom might have been taking place quietly. As Kaminer implies, when individual freedom becomes the rally cry of the mob, you know you are witnessing something else entirely. (Everybody, chant together: "We are all different!") The test of freedom would be action, not ideology. Anyone can claim to be free of social constraints, but the truest gauge of that freedom is the degree to which individuals in a population choose different paths. Was it possible that my generation was living and struggling with the personal freedoms that baby boomers forged as a generation but individually only playacted?"