Right on, Giok. Good summation.

Yeah, Amos, but most people are conformists by nature. And even "rugged individualism" can be mass marketed! :-) Remember Virginia Slims cigarettes..."you've come a long way, baby"? They were marketing rugged modern female individualism and supposed feminist liberation while addicting women to tobacco.

I must be one of the world's great nonconformists, I suppose, because I almost always bucked the popular trends.