While I respect and even support individualism, I’m not quite ready to assert that nothing is wrong with it. My take is that like any principle, the principle of individualism, when taken to its logical extreme, tends to result in the attitude that individuals is [sic] all there is, and that society either doesn’t exist, or is the sum total of all the individuals, no more and no less. Needless to say, I find that particular attitude borders on anti-social. There’s also a tendency for individualism to be equated with laissez-faire capitalism. This results from the (IMHO false) dichotomy between individual and state. I think a more appropriate dichotomy is between individuals and institutions; the latter category definitely including government, but also including business and organized religion. I refer to my position as “thick individualism.” I suppose it is individualism without reservations, but certainly with some, shall we say, caveats.