[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Gene]
I agree that intellectual patterns begin in an individual At First. But as 
soon as they stat spreading those ideas, then a collective has that idea. 
It seems clear that Intellect  isn't purely individual. I generally need 
someone else to bounce my ideas off of to really be able to refine them. If 
I were alone, my ideas would be very weak. Intellectual patterns exist in 
both individuals and the collective at once.

[Arlo]
Gene, you made my day. This fallacious (and malicious) split between 
"individual" and "collective", even to the point of proposing they are in 
OPPOSITION to one another, is pure lunacy. The "individual" and the 
"collective" are not distinct, indeed, they are interwoven, dialogically 
related points of analysis. But witness those who seek to reduce everything 
to inane dichotomies, and then pit them in a battle of Absolute Good versus 
Absolute Evil. A fool's quest, at best.

Arlo