[concerned about politics]

With the spread of purely egotistic goals at the expense of the altruistic regard for family and nation, the individual begins to talk of his rights rather than his duties, for he no longer feels any sense of destiny, of belonging to and being a part of a greater and more enduring entity. He no longer rejoices in the secure belief that he shares in a heritage which it is part of his common duty to protect-he no longer feels that he has anything in common with those around him. In short, he feels lonely and oppressed. Since all values have become strictly personal, everything is now equal to everything; e.g., nothing equals nothing.

He becomes spiritually and emotionally dead.

[RobbyS]

Liberalism joins with statism, because it hates mediate bodies more than the state. Instititions like the family and church are ground between the indiviidual's demand for total freedom and his demand for total security.