Ha! Good you said "may." How about individual style in driving? Not welcome in the collective! Here's the deal. Wriring must be legible, and legibility must be learned by discipline. Discipline--no matter what the topic--requires a common standard. Musicians who learn the rules are the ones wo have personal style. Back to school you go. In any case, if you search examples of cursive handwriting and pick the nicest of them all, you'll see they're all different. So I think your argument about individual style is a virus.
Musicians who learn the rules are the ones wo have personal style.
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Renowned musicians like Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Jimi Hendrix broke all the rules and became famous for it. Their personal styles are instantly recognizable.
I think you missed the entire point I was making which was that individualism of any kind, be it in writing or other forms of expression, is not welcome in communal societies that are under the thumb of a controlling dictatorship. Like in the noted book Animal Farm.