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The problem with that is that a lot of what gets promoted under the banner of 'individualism' these days is really just prejudice masquerading as free speech. Most of the people who claim that they're 'educating themselves' and 'forming their own opinions' are really just idiots who think that an hour or two of confirmation bias fuelled googling makes them the intellectual equal of a real expert who has spent a decade or more studying.
You won't have any real hope of coming up with anything novel, innovative, or really individual, until and unless you already have a solid grounding in what has gone before. You need a good taxonomy of the intellectual landscape to be able to say anything interesting, else you're just going to be repeating stuff that smarter people have already said.
It's not that there's no room for individual thought, it's just that really engaging in individual thought is a lot harder than most of the people who wank on about it realise. And so most of the time, most of the shit that those people say isn't in any way individual, or original, at all.
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