"When communities disintegrate, individuality deteriorates. People lose the sense of their individual meaning or worth and become units of a mass. They feel alienated, not unique. Or they become egocentric and try to create an image that will distinguish them from the crowd. They may become rich or famous and thus stand out, but they are not unique, for they represent merely a different stratum in the mass structure. 8 No group is more alike than our TV personalities, who must all live according to the same image: the image of success."
—Lowen, Fear of Life (1980).