Are Our Global Commitments Collapsing Because of Social Psychological Strain? Yes—and America Is Just One Example

Across countries and at the global level, the social fabric is fraying, and our standard explanations are missing the root of the problem. We keep pointing to leaders, polarisation, or failing institutions, but those accounts stay on the surface. The deeper issue is one of social psychology. I apply a social psychological lens—grounded in a rereading of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents and…