Collectives are innately against the individual (Lat. undivided). The “individuals” propagated by their psychologists, philosophers, media, influencers & consumer strategists are actors who lure with the lie that Self-realisation may be achieved in a collective.
The relationships of the members of collectives are largely parasitic, and increase with the complexity of a collective, which manifests in the growing numbers of laws with which it tries to regulate its parasitic interdependencies and the mutual devouring of its subjects.
Collectives are bound by the emotions of their members. Simple collectives evoke them with demons and taboos, stimulate them with gods of revenge and sacrifices, and refresh them with recycling religions. In more complex collectives, like those of the Occident, emotions are being taken care of by the media responsible for advertisements, fashions, entertainments, the personality designs of their members, their manner of conduct and communication and, last not least, the fomenting of the emotions which support the ideologies and politics of their rulers.