western individualism

Let's refer back to our notes from our previous session....it was mentioned that perhaps ontological considerations indicate that a particular individual actually has more reality than the group the singular entity belongs to, or springs from. This is an extrapolation from the notion that the general is more primitive than the instance.....this is indeed the best of all possible worlds simply because it is the one that in fact exists! Possibilities existed in the past, as they exist in the future....but only what is, is here and now. Historical fiction, and science fiction are all well and good, but your daily life has all that trumped; in that it is damned well real. At least it seems real, doesn't it? Aye, but there's the rub, for in this dream of life what death may come....what a minute....got lost there....but there is the rub, for the individual can kick the bucket at any minute, and the group persist regardless of this accident, so doesn't this indicate ontological precedence of the general over the particular? Your assignment is a 100 word essay on this question. Begin now.