I don’t think I’m an original thinker, I don’t think most self-proclaimed original thinkers ever are.

The never-ending angst of the individual is something that’s been echoed through time immemorial, through which he invariably finds and loses himself. Under the banner was—and still is—his calling, his purpose, his oldest mechanism for survival. Much to our arrogance and our intellectual prowess, our banners will always be our Achilles' heel.
The central problem of mankind is just this—our tendency for tribalism. We would have wished at some point that we could do away with superstitions and ignorance of the past, but we can’t. Witch-hunting is alive and well, and it’s taken for itself another mask of the same materials: The mask of virtue. 
During our modern time when statistical truth is the truth, the individual is then cast aside, his utility no longer of paramount importance. In scientific rationalism, the doctrine continually finds for itself a statistically average man, an ideal man onto whom further progress can be based. Whoever unfortunate enough to be placed at the end of the bell curve is no longer considered human; those few are the extremities, the abnormalities and thus should be treated as such. 
Being reduced to a mere number, a social unit, the individual finds himself deprived of meaning, of the ability to make moral decisions and individual development. He then instead is fed, clothed, bathed, have all his wishes fulfilled so long as he stays obedient to the State.
One often finds himself at a loss for words when arguing for the individual since the individual, too, can be responsible for much cruelties of the world.  
However, if there’s anything that knowledge of the last century has taught us, it’s that tragedies—Hell, even—befall onto the world when individuality is smirked at and the banner was the truth. 
To quote Jordan B. Peterson from his New Year's letter to the world:
A close reading of 20th century history indicates, as nothing else can,  the horrors that accompany loss of faith in the idea of the individual. It is only the individual, after all, who suffers. The group does not suffer – only those who compose it. Thus, the reality of the individual  must be regarded as primary if suffering is to be regarded seriously. Without such regard, there can be no motivation to reduce suffering and,  therefore, no respite. Instead, the production of individual suffering  can and has and will be again rationalized and justified for its  supposed benefits for the future and the group.