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[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So what kind of community are you interested in?

[–]HibikiBlack[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suppose their collective identity is up for them to decide, but it would be one that values ethics, loyalty towards your own and pushing each person to become the best of itself.

[–]thefirststone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bread and circuses. Same as it ever was.

And this use of "individualist" is very common, especially among Catholic writers, but its use to refer to hedonistic conformists, whose highest ideal is their status within a group, does not to me fit.