Lack of human unity

Two hundred years of over-emphasis on the individual have deeply rooted societal life-styles in protectionism. People see themselves as individual rather than global citizens and public conscience has not yet adequately articulated the value of corporateness to the individual and to society as a whole.

The world is sick. Its illness consists less in the unproductive monopolization of resources by a small number of men than in the lack of brotherhood among individuals and peoples. (Papal Encyclical, Populorum Progressio, 26 Mar 1967).