The choice between indvidual freedom and "the common good" is a false dichotomy. There is no necessary opposition between an individual's interests and the interests of the community. However, we live with a system that often forces us to apparently make a "choice" of deciding between the individual and community or family. Examples are when we decide to emigrate, or sacrificing everything reaching for a dream, which invariably fails to materialise. This illusion of choice is nurtured by a ruling class and their media who benefit from purporting the fallacy that the individual should work hard for themselves, that greed is good, and that good things will come to those who wait (and work hard in the meantime). In this way, we become like Drogo at the Bastiani Fortress, trapped by the expectation that something will happen, that never does (1). Conversely, it seems obvious that what's good for us all is good for you and I as individua...