[DrScientist]

> In the US....

I'd argue that the democratic ties between the people and the actions of the government in the US are extremely fragile - money is more important than people now in the US electoral system.

Another American disease is to then extrapolate that malaise and assume the rest of the world is in a similar position.

The solution isn't to dissolve society - that removes the only mechanism ( government ) that the majority have to control the powerful, further entrenching the power of the rich.

The solution is to take money out of US politics and get it working again for the majority,