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Civilization requires trust and fairness. Saying someone theoretically has a fair shake therefore an unfair outcome is fair won't keep getting it. There's also

Civilization requires trust and fairness. Saying someone theoretically has a fair shake therefore an unfair outcome is fair won't keep getting it. There's also this strange idea that government itself is a bad thing (from Thomas Payne's Common Sense?), when the problem would be bad government. Someone has to make the big decisions, so if it's not the government, then presumably it's whoever has the most power? Then there is the general abandonment of spiritual values in the west? (If you think the U. S. is a religious country, just try getting Sundays off - I probably didn't get hired at a grocery store once because of this - in the Carolinas.)

tarsinge 5y ago
This is actually what bothers me the most. It seems we are moving from individuality to egoism. More than values I think it's the abandonment of a shared society narrative (the book "Sapiens" was insightful on that mechanism): why bother being a good citizen and play our role when the game is rigged at every level (bonus with taxes financing useless wars)? And all of that reported by media on a credibility free-fall. The social contract seems kind of broken (not without reasons unfortunately).