Not really sure about your terms here, you seem to be glorifying individualism in practice, but blaming it in name? What could be more individualistic than doing something on your own?
If you want a deep dive, this is a good paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12518973
I can accept that you make a distinction, but to me the beginning and end of individualism is respect for individual autonomy, and I suspect that a lot of English literates would agree.
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17437151&goto=item%3Fi...