So what of the West, at least as we revere it, obviously without the perversions of totalitarian ideologies? What about the survival of individual thought? The yearning to escape from the crowd? For that is what the West, in the healthiest sense, is ultimately about, and what throughout the centuries has given Western civilization its peculiar power and dynamism. The West wrested the individual from the group, gave him or her autonomy, and thus gave birth to freedom.
