"individualism and freedom are the most important" is not incompatible with caring for the elderly or your family.This is a misconception that people think of i

"individualism and freedom are the most important" is not incompatible with caring for the elderly or your family.This is a misconception that people think of individualism as equivalent to being selfish.The best generosity and care one could provide is from his own conscience and goodwill, not doing it out of necessity or as a requirement.This was vastly pushed in EE where people would hijack Christianity or any generous aspect of a religion in order to promote their ideological umbrella of the system. The problem we have in the Europe with elderly (see Italy or other countries with similar demographics) is precisely >because< we think everyone should have at least 2-3 of their last decades of life lived in a comfortable environment where any agency is bad agency.This is overall a bad look on life and you even some young people behave like this, because "the system will provide".We put the futures of people under promises and hypotheticals. If you want the reverse take a look at cultures that think in the opposite fashion: SK,eastern cultures,or maybe Japan(though i'm least familiar with that, and what consists as "elderly" continues to increase);Now even there you have a lot of problems, but problems are inevitable and that is precisely the argument and reason of why we should strive to behave less "civilized" - as in staying comfortable -. The reality of life is that it is constantly degrading, generations who went through war always understand this and seem "superhuman" to later generations who grew up in peace.It's not about war and conflict between people but war against the degradation of life.