The most serious problem caused by individualistic theories is that they pit the individual against the state, causing state malaise

However, the most serious problem caused by these individualistic theories and their false dichotomy between a private and a public self is that they pit the individual against the state, causing state malaise. This is not only unnatural on the information platform that is the state (because states are natural to humans), but is also counterproductive, in the sense that it requires a Sisyphean effort to make countless subtle distinctions work while also trying to strike a balance each time: there are myriad instances that the government should (pretend to) not know of and others that it is expected to know of (the same case sometimes falling into both categories, for example in cases of emergency). (It is on this premise that the dictator (Fuehrer) theory is based—which takes us back to Caesar, and even before that, to Aristotle’s aesymnetes.)

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