Our entire culture has become about self, and individualism. We do not have the community, historical or racial binds that much of the rest of the world do, and

Our entire culture has become about self, and individualism. We do not have the community, historical or racial binds that much of the rest of the world do, and the culture does not propagate the idea of looking out for each other, only "your own" be that your immediate family or subgroup. The technology we develop and trumpet is a bit of an application of Conway's Law.