It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.
I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?