Rugged Individualism Today

Frederick jackson turner should have coined it in his 1893 essay on the frontier but he didn t.

Rugged individualism today.

And rugged individualism continues to be a part of our mental makeup. It helps that it now has a name. The term rugged individualism was coined by president herbert hoover in 1928 as a way to describe the american philosophy of self reliance and the need to be free of government control and this ideology is the problem. People who aren t familiar with both are those who think reaching your lifetime goals don t require any effort or any struggles.

In america today we still struggle with people who don t live up to the idea of rugged individualism. The myth of the rugged individual. Attracting the right people. I believe it isn t really called by that term but people know it as the american dream.

It s a win win scenario. After all the rugged individualism of herbert hoover was believed by. During the 1950s a decade of economic prosperity free market capitalism and mccarthyism such views were controversial. This is an oddity but for a very long time the term rugged individualism seems not to have existed.

In america today your life chances depend largely on how you started where you grew up and how much your parents earned. Calls to break down the federalism structure whether by strengthening executive power or turning to some kind of parliamentary system or allowing the courts to take over our social and economic decisions are a kind of declaration of war against.