> individualism, liberty and self-reliance are pillars of the modern developed world Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly disagrees with you. I believe you confused

> individualism, liberty and self-reliance are pillars of the modern developed world Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly disagrees with you. I believe you confused individualism with autonomy and free will. a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically uniform when “every citizen, being assimilated to all the rest, is lost in the crowd“. -- Alexis de Tocqueville a true pillar of modern developed World