While the statement on rampant individualism is in itself just an unsupported belief, there are bigger issues with the implied knowledge on human nature.

It’s one thing to claim to know all that is supposed to be ‘human nature’ — it is quite another to claim that this collective knowledge equals the whole truth of it.

First of all, it is just lazy thinking: Social behavior is inherently driven by individual cravings and it is ‘individualism’ and the momentum it creates, that sets the stage for acquiring deeper knowledge. It is the craving for solitude that propels the healthy human forward into true adulthood. The whole thing is about freeing yourself, first from cultural illusion, then from the illusion that there is individuality at all.

The human is at its core a truth seeker. But his growth get stunted by paradigms reflected in the thinking above. Ofcourse it is not social behavior that brings one to a conclusion on the true nature of the human being. Not in this day and age anyway, if ever. It’s what keeps knowledge firmly out of reach for most.

There is a clearly felt physical need for solitude that starts around puberty and it is the push to identify with groups, handed down from on high, that keeps individualism from baring its true fruit, namely the ‘independent’ individual. It is not a bad thing to go against your or anyone’s ‘human nature’ when it is defined in such a trivial and infantile way, that it keeps almost everyone from digging deeper into the nature of their reality.