Insteadness sometimes we focus on this instead of that

Arizona manifests its independence from the Federal overlords by not participating in Daylight Savings Time (except the Navajo nation, which manifests its independence from the State overlords by participating in Daylight Savings Time). Ostensibly because DST would make drive-in movie start times too late. How many drive-in movie theaters are there in AZ currently?

Most especially in US culture, it seems like we focus on ourselves as a kind of insteadness rather than the larger forces and structures that define our existence.

For example, even when we engage in practices, such as Buddhism, where the self is supposed to be deemphasized, people in the US seem to manage to find a way to make it all about themselves and their own personal fulfillment/extension.

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Jonathan Lethem gave it as an example (well, at least the Don Imus part...I'm not sure Jonathan said what he thought Imus was "intead of") during his 4/12/2007 Arts & Lectures talk in Portland, OR.