Alienated Consciousness and 'Individual'

As has been previously discussed, Alienated Consciousness originates in objective conditions, beginning with the suppression of one's membership in a group, most notably as formulated by influential Theology and Political Ideology.  Now, the suppression is repeatedly reinforced by the common use of 'individual'.  For, 'individual' is properly a quantifier, so it entails the general term that it modifies.  Hence, the pervasive common use of 'individual' as a substantive is the product of the suppression of a general term, e. g. the suppression of 'American' in 'individual American', further reinforced by the common transition from '"an" individual' to '"the" individual'.  This misuse often extends beyond common parlance, to even some of those who are explicitly dedicated to eliminating conceptual confusion from ordinary language, i. e. Analytic Philosophers, thereby raising the suspicion that their enterprise has latent Theological or Ideological presuppositions.