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Too much of an individualism?

For last two years or so, I am watching serials, more than movies. It started from GOT, and now I am really hooked up. I look forward to what I am going to watch in my homeward train journey. I typically watch episode or two daily. 
On the day, when I don't have to travel and work, I watch more episodes. 
I was watching 'Transparent' because I read about it in one of the articles that was discussing shows for LGBTQ+. I watched it mainly for how it has treated the sexuality. The sex scenes are like toppings, they attract, but they can't retain viewers to the series unless they are backed by a captivating storyline. 
'Transparent' is not the series I will typically watch. I do not like serieses where an individual's messed up decision making is the concurrent theme. Most likely these messed up individuals are sufficiently rich and that's what makes their messing up visually beautiful and consequences stay mostly emotional. 
'Transparent' is no different. Amazon Prime, in the description of season 1 of 'Transparent' stresses that it is a story of dysfunctional family. That's eerily apt description. In fact, everyone in the family is simply a person who would like to live as per their course of desires dictate them, except the patri/matriarch of the family! I really got irked due to those endless remorses and expressions of how life is going wrong and what not. 
Are we living in the world where standing firm and keeping one's sorrows to oneself is being demeaned? At least in movies and series world, it is definitely happening. 'Expressing oneself' and 'living life as one desires' are becoming very shallow terms. Expressions are simply anything that comes to mind of the person who expresses them and 'living life as one desires' is nothing but buying lot of stuff and seeking bodily pleasures. 
There is simply no end to this style of living as per one's desires. It is just a bottomless pit. 
One should either chalk a course of life, with ample though and experimentation, and then just steadfastly stick to it or leave it for another course of life, but not for the freefall of desires. 
Exertion and enjoyment of individual's choice has meaning only when these choices are part of set of constraints. 
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But can all of us chalk such course of life for themselves? 
No. 
Then?
Then there needs to be a 'default' for them. In fact, there is always a default for them, nothing but a dominant mode of life prevalent in society. 
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