Modern society suffers from both atomization and collectivism. As a consequence, it has become increasingly secularized. A secularized society, however, does not meet human yearnings for community. Sensing that a polity divorced from the sacred is unworthy of them and is no community at all, people begin to think that it has no authority to oblige them, and so they think of themselves as their own individual rulers with authority to do as they please. The real need of man at the end of the millennium, according to Russell Kirk, is for roots.
True community does indeed provide roots.
That community, foundation of all other communities, is the Church.