We became arrogant and prideful.
I’ve been preaching that for a while. I think that arrogance has been reflected in the unprecedented expansion of human government, which has subsumed a lot of the function that private charity used to undertake. The Caesar of old was treated as a supernatural god. Today’s Caesars are treated as secular humanist gods. It is not the people’s task any more to locate and establish good officials. It is officials’ task to bring the people on board with their agendas.