So one can see that there is an integration of autonomous collectivism and individualism. But band members have a personal autonomy which is the opposite of the individualism in the West.

As one X user put it on Thursday: “The 4th of July represents the triumph of American individualism over the tribalistic collectivism of Europe.” But this is anything but the case.

The American Revolution sprang not from individualism, but from the Bible A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence on display at Sotheby’s in New York in January.