What individualism has bought us is not the end of servitude, but merely the cloaking of masters.
It’s pretty perverse that our culture celebrates individualism and yet condones submission only to inhuman institutions like schools, companies, and governments. It’s a sort of inverse Confucianism – a system where authority can only be exercised by people who deliberately do not engage in one-on-one superior-inferior relationships.
From Servants Without Masters, Harold Lee.