We've Lost All Sense Of The Common Good
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The only way to rebuild a Common Good is to radically decentralize political, financial and media concentrations of ownership and power.
The theory of American civics is that the competitive process of every group advocating for its narrow self-interests will magically generate the Common Good, that is, a political and social order that serves everyone's common/shared interests.