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> Western countries appear more and more dysfunctional as an emerging result of their citizens inability to collectively take action

Well said. I feel like people have slowly been taught to fear standing up for themselves.

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I think people stand up for themselves just fine, they just have a hard time standing up for others.

The thing is it isn't that we need to stand up for others, but by standing together that we can alleviate society's ills, including our own on a personal scale.

I think that people in general, at all times, tend to follow the crowd. They tend to buy what everyone else is buying and sell what everyone else is selling. They tend to do what everyone else is doing, even though, usually, it doesn't serve them.

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