I think you have bought into the myth of the corporate identity. It may feel nice to be part of a whole even if it is anything but greater, but it’s just another variation of the guy who thinks things are ok just because everybody else is doing it. Frankly, when you speak this way, all I can hear is cowardice and corporate arrogance.
On the other hand, maybe buying into “myths” has nothing to do with it. Maybe it is just who we are. And you are having just as much trouble with empathy as I am.
On the other hand, maybe the Borg is wrong about thinking that it is the superior form of life just because it is a collective. The real character of life is found in diversity not uniformity. And what you really have in the Borg is just a disease which destroys life in a rather mindless unthinking manner because like a virus it lacks the capability of appreciating any life but its own.
It’s not like I think the individual is all. Far from it. I often point out that orthodox Darwinism misses out on the importance of the community in evolution. I definitely believe that communities are living organisms in their own right. But this doesn’t necessarily mean they are a superior organism. Frankly all the evidence suggest that human communities and societies tend to be rather primitive forms of life. People in a group tend to have a mob mentality which is both less intelligent and less moral.
It may well be that ideally there is a greater hope for salvation of people in community than individually. After all Jesus sure made it sound like it is all about how we help each other. But I seriously doubt that is anything close to reality. I see more abuse in community than support. Maybe one day it will different though. On the other hand, it may be a leapfrog sort of development, where the community improves the individual and then the individual improves the community.