democratic freedom to rest: religion, community, family and the sense of the nation as a moral community. As these eroded from the 1960s onwards, individualism was left as the order of the day, and so it is today. The individual trumps society. The ‘I’ prevails over the ‘We’. We have the market and the state, the two arenas of competition, one for wealth, the other for power, but nothing else, no arena of cooperation that would bridge the difference between wealthy and powerful and the poor and powerless.
