Rob said:

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... in the sense that tribal societies are individualist.

Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada) wrote:

I absolutely don't agree. The subordination of the individual to the tribe is fundamental of their vision of the world.

Some tribal societies are individualist, some are not: Most of the myths and legends of the Australian Aboriginals have a lone ranger character as the hero or villain, or at least most of the ones that I have read feature a person whose life is dramatic or heroic in part because he is tribeless, perhaps for the same reason as most heroes in Disney cartoons are orphans. Individualism is not about the

personnal opinions, it is about the vision of Man as an entity in itself, not a type of cattle that owe his service to the collectivity of the tribe.

Crypto makes the tribe (and it's sorcerers) loose their grip... :)

JFA

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