Extreme individualists like Nietzsche hated the metropolis for cultural atrophy

Evidence

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbor against the metropolis. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9963

Categorization

• XREF: Nietzsche as spokesman for extreme individualism resonates with the reader’s interests in how institutional systems crush personal subjectivity — parallels the dyad-vs-triad tension.