First hurdle is to reach a consensus of just what the common good is. Good luck with that.
Culture is fabric of delusion/illusion woven from the ever shifting bedrock of myth.
"People seem to be hardwired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, and they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breast."
"History ... is a point of view, an attempt to impose order on events that are essentially chaotic."
BTW, even my own mother wasn't on my side. Well, at least not always. She never failed to make the same lame point about it being for my own good.
