The Post-Individual

Yancey Strickler argues that the internet is producing "post-individualism," a stage in which people separate their identities from geography, family and physical life, then seek community again. He traces the modern individual to around 1000 A.D., when Catholic Church leaders reportedly banned first-cousin marriage, which he links to the rise of cities, guilds and universities. He cites Sherry Turkle's 1984 book *The Second Self* and K-Hole's 2014 "Youth Mode," which says people today "are born individuals and have to find their communities." Post-individualism, he writes, is not a rejection of individualism.