Take any of the most successful people in the world and leave them naked and alone in the jungle and they won't survive a week! 
No matter how independent or "self made" they think they are, they are actually as dependent on society as the bum on the corner.

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Capitalism will always massively oversell individualism to maximize its survival, no matter if the reality is that society can survive without any individual, but rarely can a single individual be able to survive without society.

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I wouldn't downplay the importance of individuals though. I think that can be dangerous.

Not more dangerous than overselling individualism. I would rather downplay individualism any time than say something that is not factually correct, and say that any single individual is essential for humanity moving forward or our survival.

I guess you are right except in circumstances like when the human need for freedom is being obstructed. Which has happened a lot lately

Freedom is a buzzword, used to create propaganda, there's no such thing as absolute freedom, and the freedom of one person rather often means the oppression of another person. I like dealing in tangible liberties, not in mirages. The reality is individual economic freedom means freedom to exploit everything.

Every word can be used as propaganda. If we let propaganda kill real words, we are doomed. 

The worst part of wolves dressing as our grandma is that many people never again speak to their grandmas.

I'll frame it simpler: Evil always pretends to be good. If we then believe there is no good, we are totally lost and evil absolutely has won. 

The same is done the other way when we talk about government or even sharing and reducing inequality.