Individuals and the Means of Communication

The 'Individuals' of Modern Political Philosophy may be presented as if they exist in a vacuum, but the presentations themselves do not. They are books that are the products of processes that transpire under concrete historical conditions.  At their root, those conditions are the disintegration of theocratic social orders, the primary cause of which is Gutenberg's invention, which effects the de-centralization of possession of what is considered to be 'divine knowledge'.  In other words, the contents of the works that promote Modern Political Individualism reflect, first and foremost, the medium in which they appear, and its historical context, i. e. its 'Individuals' are products of the medium itself.  Or, put more generally, that Individualism reflects the newly ascending means of communication.