As A. Savage says, collectivism and autonomy are not mutually exclusive. I'm not sure most Americans know that though. If Americans self identify as individuali

As A. Savage says, collectivism and autonomy are not mutually exclusive. I'm not sure most Americans know that though. If Americans self identify as individualists and believe that means being anti-collectivism then isn't individualism, or at least the ideas of individualist thinkers, partly to blame for our cultural bias against collectivism? Maybe I should've said it's America's culture of toxic individualism rather than run of the mill individualism.