Group Think

The more I watch the news, the more aware I am that there's a disconnect between individuals and a group. I love individuals. I hate the group.
People are wonderful on an individual basis because that is when their full humanity comes through. Yet only the most basic and generic emotions come through in large groups. I'm not sure why this is because it doesn't really follow to reason. If each person is a font of miracles, which I fully believe, than in a group the unique characteristics which make us phenominally rare creatures in a vast universe should multiply exponentially. If each one of us is capable of dreaming beyond our limited senses and experience, then together our vision should increase dramatically beyond anything that a single person can experience alone.
But there's no proof if this. It's much more common to see evidence that when large groups of people come together they only succeed in muting our individual capabilities and voices.
Now normally after making such a statement, someone would point out a few rare exceptions to this. What about the moon landing? Who among us would have been able to succeed in that grand adventure on their own? Or which individual would have been able to build Athens or the Taj Mahal alone?
I'm not convinced.
I think it far more likely that only an individual would have been able to conceive a moon landing, or the Taj. But a group of technicians or archatechts would never have come upon something so grand and so beautiful. Each project could have only been started by one person's idea, and then implemented with the help of others.
Stephen Colbert made the observation that because he's such an advocate of the free market, he believes that the musician that makes the most money is, through definition, the best musician in the world. But merely hearing songs that have been written by committee shows the truthiness of this belief. The greatest songs are ones written by a single person. It's the distillation of one individuals greatness, undiluted by others.
It's interesting to extend this to other works of art as well. Art made by the guidance and direction of one person always are more impressive than art made through the strong influences of others. Again, I'm not sure why this is. It would follow that if you gathered a group of artists together to work on a project the result would be greater than what each person would have been able to create individually. But it isn't.
So regardless of talent, make art. Regardless of ability, make something. Create something. Write something. The second you look to others for assistance in your creative efforts you lose your individual greatness.