Sub-Culture
To be an individual there can be only one of you.
In our culture so many words have been perverted, bastardized and all around skewered that what our magazines and commercials have carried away as "individualized" is wholly indistinct from "customized." Your individual (customized) identity is arrived at in the process of navigating through countless pre-selected options and features. These features can be relied upon as sufficiently diverse for the consumer’s needs to an exceptionally minute degree when they are targeted at the consumer’s socioeconomic background. The catalogues and magazines whose job it is to sell you the features will arrive automatically in your mailbox two to three weeks after you take up residence in any location. Even the most outré of the deviants can be channeled into earnings-sharing counter and subcultures, which will then be absorbed by mainstream culture. Eventually all new features are incorporated into the great matching pot, all styles are assimilated and all profits re-channeled into the old channels; giving you clothing, possessions and a lifestyle that are, to mint a phrase, "Culture Coordinated."