Is the State a Limitation on Individualism?

The state has grown gotten larger, its powers extended as the scope of individuality is also being expanded. The individual only comes into being once you have this kind of large expansion of an increasing centralization and empowering of the central state,. And this, i think, helps to explain this kind of odd paradox that's not well explained by our politics. On the one hand, you have the explosion of this kind of form of individualism. But on the other hand,you have the sing and extraordinary centralization of the state. These two phenomena grow together rather than understanding them as opposites.