I blogged my thoughts on Libertarianism's view of individual vs. collective, and then later on the line between individual freedom and collective responsibility. Now there is an excellent opinion piece in the New York Times that addresses the U.S. American myth of individual autonomy and its significance to the Tea Party movement. It touches on both Cartesian notions of individual subjectivity and Hegelian ideas on the relationship between subjectivity and interdependence. The piece:
