Now, this is a rather curious sentence. Collective solutions are imposed on individuals by societies all the time -- in the case of such institutions as the American Medical Association, capitalist corporations, and the liberal State, rather radically. One wonders if the good doctor knows what he is saying; one doubts that he is a devoté of Max Stirner. But onward, or rather backward. We have four neo-Nazi scare-quote-progressivisms: animal rights, antitobacco activism, temperance efforts (by which I suppose he could mean anything from the Drug War to "we support responsible beverage consumption" ads) and enthusiasm for natural foods. Might I suggest that this accumulation is just a bit incoherent? How, for instance, does someone who prefers not to find pesticides in her lettuce a Nazi? In what way is she similar to a Drug Warrior -- is she going to have the produce man dragged off to prison?
I would say this sort of talk was disgraceful, if it wasn't too silly to be anything as serious as disgraceful. Were not the defenders of the traditional and conventional more earnest about their work in years gone by?
Gordon