Many of the issues of today's world can be traced back to an erosion of authority - people in the West have, to a significant extent, lost faith - so the authority of God has been weakened. Then they lost respect for state and government because of corruption and incompetence, and the authority of experts has also massively decreased. "Authority" is in marked decline in the West, which now has to rely on a much greater scale on constraints and incentives
Many of the issues of today's world can be traced back to an erosion of authority - people in the West have, to a significant extent, lost faith - so the authority of God has been weakened. Then they lost respect for state and government because of corruption and incompetence, and the authority of experts has also massively decreased. "Authority" is in marked decline in the West, which now has to rely on a much greater scale on constraints and incentives