I think it's actually the shared morality that seems to have gripped the world. Maybe it originated in the west, but I don't think so, I think it's been around

I think it's actually the shared morality that seems to have gripped the world. Maybe it originated in the west, but I don't think so, I think it's been around longer than that. I could get really tinfoil-hat-y and say that it's often just a method of control (hard work as virtue to motivate people at the bottom of the pyramid), but I think it's safer to say that most of the time for one reason or another most societies decided the best way to attack the problem was through propaganda.