Society, by it's very nature, limits individuality. It is its duty to at best train and at worst remove individuals to a common, most proven means of survival. This is as it should be. Societies, such as we think of them, have evolved as the superior form of group behavior. Viewed from their base perspective as a triangular based group supported by mass producers and guided by individual ideas, these social organisims have conquired the planet. Our planatary evolution has taught us that for species to survive they must communicate, work together and work towards the good of the whole.
As is the nature of evolution, each organism strives to be the single survivor. Our societal evolution has taught us to bind together with like minds, and shun those with other ideas. In this way most of the current cultures have come to being. However, this organism has also reached the end of it's time
We are reaching a critical point in our evolution where the environment no longer threatens us so much as the individuals whom are being ignored. Our technology has allowed us to communicate ideas rendering the typical geographical isolation between social cultures obsolete.
Soon coming is the reckoning between natural evolution and taught knowledge. Ever struggling are our own bred impulses to demean, exclude and destroy means of survival different from our own.