I'm not asking why we can't have a socialist totalitarian lifestyle in which everyone likes the same thing, I'm not a socialist, I'm just amazed that some people really feel that they are their own, when in all actuality, aren't we all who we are now because of external influences we've allowed to sway us? and I feel that it is the case, and so we are all only a compilation of multiple different opinions and people with no true originality, Brave New World is a very extreme example to counter with, my reasoning is far lower than global political level. My questions have more so to do with what entertains us, concerning music and artistry. I feel it can be important to have individuality, but examples in a brave new world such as having one's own family, having some quiet time lone, building relationships, everyone can do these things, in fact our society promotes having friends, going out, getting jobs, getting married, then having kids. My mother frowns upon homosexuals because her christian views tell we're supposed to reproduce and be plenty, but homosexuals have no capability of doing so and are therefore sinful. Individual freedoms are extremely important, but these silly new forms of individuality and cultural movements of being "too mainstream" are what really vex me. The idea that you are morally and socially elite because no one else listens to the same band, reads the same comics, watches the same shows, practices the same hobbies as yourself. I feel that for one to achieve true individuality, you'd have to lock yourself in a box so you wouldn't be able to find other people with the same views as yourself.

EDIT: The fact that you recommended these books shows that you were influenced by the writers who made them, and that you agree with them, yes, you made a choice as an individual to read them, yes you made a choice as an individual to be influenced by the opinions expressed in them, but the fact that you carry yet another person's ideas with you that aren't your own contradicts the idea that you are in fact an individual, that you are one of a kind. You are another "individual" who has conformed to this persons ideas, which is fine, I believe individual RIGHTS are important also, the things that define us as "special" or, different from everybody else arent really all that special at all, and so I return to my first question, why pursue it? it is impossible, so why let this thing called individuality sway your every decision? why not just intuitively make your decisions by what you're attracted to rather than what is "non mainstream"?