Maybe we should start to follow some Socialist and Communist ways. People need to think about the great whole and not themselves.
Because when people, en masse, act for themselves within reasonable limits, through competing interests they establish niches and operate for a greater group than simply themselves. When a government tries to define the greater interest, it usually only defines the greater interest for the people in government, confines its people to those ends, and results in them acting out in exclusively individual interest. The larger the government is, the more detached from its people it becomes, and the more this problem appears.