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My anecdotal hypothesis (at least from a North American perspective) is that we've slowly adopted a culture that favors individualism and growth over community and sustainability.

We had a period of extreme wealth and growth after WWII, and chose to re-make society in ways that were fundamentally unsustainable. Then in order to keep that dream alive, we continuously borrowed from our future, and ignored those who were cut out of this dream, all to prop up an increasingly individualistic eutopia that was doomed to fail.

Now the bill is coming due for all of us. But we've gone too long isolated from our neighbors, ignoring the cries of those for whom the system was failing, and losing our sense of community that we've forgotten how to work with one another to solve our real societal problems.

The world we built ourselves is slowly deteriorating due to the natural progression of time, and we've forgotten how to fix it.