Not a great recipe for a stable society. Artistic and creative personality problems are becoming social problems, much as the society built by steady, competent people had the social problems of that personality.

Society is just the expression of collective individualism and the interplay of personality at higher levels. But all it is is an expression of us, of our collective personality.

We worship youth because youth is potential, it’s identity at the point of becoming, it’s more plastic and less settled. But it’s low in virtue and ethics/competence.

You accrue value in our current society the more you fulfill the artistic imperative of uniqueness and not adhering to the norm. That’s not an effective basis for a society though, because there’s no limit to how you can divide and subdidivide people, and difference from an average is a moving target, an unstable basis of identity. There’s no actual identity in pursuing identity, if you define it by being different. Being different is merely an energent function of an actual, more stable identity, the “normal” or average.

Despising the normal and average is also a problem because it, by definition, marginalizes the majority of people. And it forces you into a position of continual cultural revolution (which we also love) because you’ve defined yourself by revolution. So you never really arrive anywhere. And things about humans and about society and our country that took from hundreds to thousands to millions of years to develop into effective systems, you personally have to individually reinvent for yourself in a space of about twenty years or so, or risk failing the identity test of individuality. That’s a pretty big demand for a young person, a pretty high cost to individual value. I’m not sure can’t will be able to meet it.