Nothing with compassion in it. People against people. Petty loyalties instead of larger loyalties, and even petty loyalties precarious. Psychiatrists tell us of their alarm about it. Students of divorce statistics are baffled by it.
Sociologists try to build theories on it.
But the truth is that it is such a state of things as obtained just before Christianity began to melt the hardness out of the declining Roman Empire. We need love as the apostle Paul spoke of it. Without which no merit could avail and no virtue endure. Not of North America, not of the United States, not of Maryland, not of Prince George's County, but citizens of one world.