Me-too-ism

I believe [Dean] Rusk has abdicated. Rusk merely follows [Robert] McNamara. It is McNamara who is calling the shots in South Vietnam. [...] The South Vietnamese program is McNamara's program. I am not interested in Rusk's "me-too-isms" in regard to it.

On each occasion, trying to distil an essential essence from all the me-too-isms which make every major insurance broker seem alike.

But I would like to say to you that, while the 1970’s were very much the age of the me-too-ism, of I’ve got mine, of all of the conflicts in this country, and while the 1980’s are very much an era of great change in our society, with new technologies and new opportunities, the 1990’s will be the era of creativity.

[T]he solutions were almost exclusively the product of half-understood ‘me-too-isms’ based upon what they felt the competition were doing.

On the other hand, the growth of national consciousness, the awareness of a specific cultural and aesthetic past, a new sensitivity to the individual’s own visual experience, and, in many years, an active contemporary artistic creativity have created a world that can no longer be satisfied with aesthetic or critical me-too-ism.

Distracting, diverting, trivialising, story telling, one-upping and ‘me-too’-isms make light of children’s problems and imply that if something is too hard, we should avoid it.