Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football basketball handball volleyball and water polo individual sports are not supported.
The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
I believe society has a right to defend itself just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
In an individualistic culture the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.