Should the Spirit That Generates the Culture Be Superordinate?

There's a dynamic relationship between the culture and the spirit that generates the culture. The group is there to serve the individual, because the individual is the thing that revivifies the group. But if you subordinate the individual to the group, then the group stagnates and dies. You need to uphold the values of the group, but thevalues of the group should be subordinated to producing the individual who gives the group vision. And the mesopotamians figured that out. Wev figured it out. We just don't know that we figured it out....