Another thoughtful and insightful post.

So I’m going to take the role of the devil’s advocate here, and ask you what you concentrate your critique of the situation to ‘collectivism’ for?

The other extreme would be a society where the ‘law of the jungle’ rules, where the only morality is that of the mightiest and biggest with mightiest and biggest sword, a society built on fear and submission to the alpha.

I wonder at what point we stop critiquing ‘sides’, and begin to formulate integrated solutions.

Evolution doesn’t work on just competition, it also happens with cooperation. Sympathy and empathy set us on a different level to other species... we can help each other outside of personal gain or for fear of being apart from the collective.

Surely one can temper one’s personal freedom with the freedoms of all other individuals?

I love the way you think!