Maybe this isnāt the thread for it but bear out my musings.
My wife is Turkish, so I travel to Turkey frequently. One thing thatās always bothered me about being there is that the culture encourages selfishness. Everything is about trying to get one over on everyone else. From their behavior in traffic to ways to cheat regulations and rules, everyone is out for themselves. My BIL is in construction management. He said if the law required 20 rebar in a concrete pour, theyād do 15. If it called for 15, theyād do 10. Iāve said in the past while I was there that itās extremely hard to recover from a culture like that. That outlook is the only way they know how to think about issues.
Iāve often wondered how a culture devolves into an attitude like that and I think weāre there. Trust me, Iām full āleopards eating faces right nowā as Iāve stated earlier in this thread. People who cared about others have been beaten down to the point where theyāre callous and actively enjoying the suffering of others. Itāll be interesting to see how our country evolves from here.