It's a very fine line though. Collective's are always stronger than individuals. Culture is the only way to mediate, and again just as delicate
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Some pseudo intellectual surmised that Neandertals died out because they couldn't think as collectives, and so they couldn't organize in huge groups like humans could, and those huge groups won battles. That was the theory of Yuval Noah Harari, the brains behind the World Economic Forum.
I'm not convinced.