[mikelyons]

The answer to your question is that societies are in transition from Spiral Dynamics stage blue/orange through high orange (late capitalism) and on their way to green, which will be a very painful but necessary evolution for our survival.

For more information, check out Clair Graves' model of psychological evolution, Spiral Dynamics, Leo Gura of Actualized dot org does an excellent video series on this model and the blog post about The Big Picture of Global Politics is an excellent application of this model to everything we're dealing with from China to Trump currently.

Humanity must awaken to it's devilry.