Nope – I disagree with your basic axioms.
I don’t agree that knowledge has an innate ethics, and to state that IF knowledge is a collective function, THEN, it must be ethical, is illogical.
After all, language and other symbolic notations are obviously a collective function but there is no ethical value to them.
And I don’t agree that the threat of human violence is a basic axiom and thus, ’causes’ ethics. I think that ethics, as a conscious action, is a particular component of our species’ capacity for reason and that this is a necessary bonding factor – because we lack the bonds of genetic knowledge and so, must create out knowledge base. Our knowledge base is shared, ie, collective, and this sharing is the basic axiom of ethics. Not the threat of violence.
The individual is not a creation. After all, since our species has the capacity for reason and lacks genetic knowledge, then, each person must ‘absorb’ (and thus could fail to absorb or follow) the collective knowledge base. The tendency to ‘be an individual’ is as innate as the tendency to be a member of the collective.
The focus is: which actor does the society privilege? The questioner or the follower? The individual or the groupie? In no-growth societies, there are constant repressions of individualism – peer, family, customs, dogma, threats. For most of human history, no-growth societies were functional. But again, the Western European biome enabled a consistent and large growth of populations, and this required technological innovations – and thus – individual free thought.
I suggest you look up some texts on Ecological Anthropology and expand your focus beyond the unverified axioms of Generative Anthro.
And there is nothing unusual in the appearance of the individual as societally dominant. As I said, our species is, as a species, capable of reason, symbolic analysis and logical modelling; these are individual acts carried out within an informational community. So, both the individual and the collective are basic components of our species. The difference then moves to: which is privileged by the society? And – when the economy needs technological innovation to increase economic production, then, the individual is privileged.
As for the Judeo-Christian ideology, the former is a tribal, no-growth ideology, focused around maintaining stability and peace within a collective. ALL no-growth societies will have that same ideology. The latter is a growth ideology, focused around enabling different tribes/peoples interact, trade and get along with each other.
