The fact that someone would even have to ask is a bit problematic. "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." - JFK Du

The fact that someone would even have to ask is a bit problematic. "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country." - JFK Duty to your family, your community, you nation, to humanity, to the Greater Good or God if you prefer. It's probably a latent communitarian impulse most people have, historically developed in some kind of civic manner by cultural institutions. Civilization, even in the most civic, secular sense, depends upon our willing participation to get along in a positivist manner, i.e. doing more than just the minimum of respecting each other's boundaries, but 'actively' working towards a Greater Good. Unfortunately, the concept collides with both libertarian ideas of 'freedom', and populist ego appeal which is the ultimate means of selling out to garner attention. Every leader, everyone trying to sell an idea or product, has an incentive to 'sellout' and just appeal to our little egos by telling us that 'it's all someone else's fault', or telling us lies like 'we can invent the reality around us'. It's popular in grievance politics, and both in some strains of social justice populism. 'Your bad situation is someone elses fault', or, 'You are what you say you are' as the Gen Alpha mantra. The libertarian 'freedom' ideologies generally have to exist, because in civilization we have a tendency to end up in tyranny, so the impulse towards that expression can be positive. But, it comes at the cost of an ideological ego appeal: 'you' should be 'free to do whatever whenever' is a seductive concept inconsistent with the reality there's quite a bit of work to be done towards just making civilization function, it's an impractical appeal to the ego in that sense that has us 'outsource' all of the work to an 'other' when of course that's impossible and irrational.