Perhaps the most conservative lines ever written in English are from Macaulay’s verse form of the annals of Titus Livius (Livy),
From “Horatius”
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods,
‘And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?
Not much individualism there. Duty, legacy, community, family, yes.
Oh yes, quote literature in a lame effort to prove superiority.
“See! See how smart and superior I am!”
Again, people who truly are superior don’t have to prove it or be constantly fawned over.
Funny, there was another group back in the 30’s and 40’s obsessed with their own supposed superiority, burned an entire continent down.
They left Azov as their legacy.