You Get What You Deserve

I firmly believe the group you are in, the way it behaves, is fully a result of the environment around it, the people within it with all their personalities and qualities. This goes for sports teams, office departments, voluntary organizations, families, governments and so on and so forth.

Actually I will go further: we get to be the way we are, the way we deserve to be. Observe: Our current government is apparently one that we deserve. We don't want, need or ask for a better one. Oh, we complain plenty, but really scoff at actually going another way. We don't revolt. We don't strike. When things really get down to it, we just move back to our homes and leave the working up to others "who have probably a little more time on their hands." In the end governments have to blow themselves up.

Sidebar: if your primary reaction to everything is to be on the defensive, if your secondary reaction is to rigidly stick to rules, if you see everyone else as lazy, hostile and incompetent, people will behave towards you accordingly. In the end you have a group of people that no one really wants to be a part of. The way you think about the outsiders, is the way you apparently deserve to be thought of as well.