To the hard-core individualist, society is like women, can't live with em, can't live without em. The times we're living in are the closest humanity has ever come to utopian individualism. The personal devices have ushered in social anarchy. To the individualist these're the best of times. I suspect the "society people" are feeling this, and it's stressing them in ways they don't fully understand. Whatever the course may be, society isn't going away. It's not in the cards and always be annoying whether run by global collectivists (left) or national collectivists (right), macrocollectivists or microcollectivists. This's to say I echo what Tim is saying. Our choice is between the collectivism that's less annoying, but we certainly can and should set our sights on something better.