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	<title><![CDATA[The Blindness of Individualism]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/the-blindness-of-individu_b_181850.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Our individualistic ideology has spawned absurdities in every field of American endeavor, from sports and the arts to corporate finance and the war on terror. Consider, for example, our policy of dropping bombs on terrorist leaders. This is based on the premise that terrorist networks are rigid bureaucracies that will collapse in confusion if you kill the boss--a policy about as effective as cutting the head off a dandelion. The military, who are organized in a rigid authoritarian hierarchy, don't...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-04-01T13:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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