Will collectivism, the herd instinct, be the end of us? For the present purpose, we may distinguish between two kinds of collectivism. There is a systemic collectivism of the sort attacked by so many modern writers: the small-minded conformism of small towns; the uniformity of middle class suburbs, with their identical houses in which dwell identical families living identical lives, or at least so claim the writers infuriated by the complacency of the bovine