Myelaine,
If you believe in God and God is not part of your collective are you sure you are in the right one?
Isn't he the one who made society? Didn't he make a host of angles who worship him perpetually? Isn't he the one who kicks creatures out of the collective if they differ too much from him?
I sometimes wonder if Satan called out like, Brave Hart, as he was cast from heaven "CRY FREEDOM!"
The garden of Eden was a society, perhaps a perfect one, but still one was expected to sacrifice individual freedom in exchange for there place within the culture. Adam and Eve could not eat of the tree. Why? Because it was the will of the leader. Violating the will of the leader comes at a price.
Some believe that freedom comes through total submission. They clam to know why the caged bird sings.