The man-in-the-street is generally indifferent to what is going on in government because he expects that his elected officials will provide him with a relatively reliable and stable set of social rules of conduct for him to follow in order to prevent him from causing any social trouble, and that he won’t have to worry about his security, as long as he is permitted to do whatever he wants with his own personal life. Such an undeclared creed of political freedom of current western countries is called: “Going along to get along.”
However, sometimes, a catastrophe occurs, and this delusional man-in-the-street is forced to think about his future and the future of mankind, because a general war has broken out and he is called to mobilize all of his forces for the purpose of protecting and defending the country he lives in. He may not be ready and willing to do that, because he has not been properly prepared.
As a result, this poor man’s identity breaks down, because he is incapable of developing for and by himself a sense of creative individuality, which would enable him to discover the reason why he was created in the first place, and so he will be incapable of understanding why he must sacrifice his so-called “well-being” at the altar of his nation. The American system of government was explicitly established to educate its citizenry on how to cope with such eventualities and avoid such catastrophes.
