You begin from false premises to arrive at a defense of a form of 'individuality" which is a myth.

First of all, Orwell did not base 1984 on "totalitarian experiments of the 20th century" but on the perversity of WWII censorship he experienced as a journalist in Britain (unlike Animal Farm, which was clearly based on Stalinist Russia). Huxley's Brave New World, while brilliant, rested on racist assumptions of who would be the higher "Alpha" humans.

Both offered dystopian views of how people can be controlled, whether by fear or apathy, but neither offered a realistic path to something different. Neither do you.

The "individuality" of "freedom" from the rest of society you advocate does not exist in the real world. Everything we do as individuals affects everyone and everything around us. Freedom without Responsibility is just one person imposing their will on others, as those who insist upon being "free" of masks impose their disease on the rest of us. As Einstein noted, we each "can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society."

So I must say "No, Thank You" to your form of selfish individuality, as well as the dystopian views of Orwell and Huxley. Instead, I will embrace the freedom offered by Shevek in Ursula LeGuin's science fiction novel - The Dispossessed:

"We know that there is no help from us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."