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I don't have to know you the "individual" - you the "individual" don't really exist in the informational sense. You are a member of a societal gestalt, inseparable from your fellow members. Everything you think, everything you are comes from them. You are your social group; it is meaningless to refer to you separate from them.
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Sorry but I have to respectfully disagree with you here. I think you are assuming too much. I am NOT inseparable from fellow members of some social gestalt. I can understand that YES that can happen with human beings given human nature but not ALL people are blind followers.
Human beings are slow developers in many ways, very maleable and impressionable. We are by design drawn to grouping together in that by doing so we have managed to survive despite our human frailties and vulnerabilites.