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George Will’s book ‘The Conservative Sensibility’: Is the individual obsolete? - Washington Post washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
QFE: “The more that individualism can be portrayed as a chimera, the more that any individual’s achievements can be considered as derivative from society, the ... more society is entitled to conscript — (1)
that is, to socialize — whatever portion of the individual’s wealth that it considers its fair share. Society may, as an optional act of political grace, allow the individual to keep the remainder of what society thinks is misleadingly called the individual’s possession. (2)
Note that “society” necessarily means society’s collective expression: the government. (3)
This collectivist agenda is antithetical to America’s premise, which is: Government — including such public goods as roads, schools and police — is instituted to facilitate individual striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness.” (4) end
