Personal Opinion

There are many theories about the natural state of human being, a lot of philosophers have studied and tried to understand and theorize what is the behavior of human species before the creation of society and civilization. Many of the phylosophers like Thomas Hobbes and Nicolás Maquiavelo think that the natural state of human being is a constant war for survival, others like John Locke think its the closest thing to paradise. A common point that all of this philosophers have is that probably, the natural state of human being has never existed. Although, if they saw what civilization is nowadays, they would be astonished to see that society has become a constant war for survivor dressed as individualism, both in a micro and macro plane, in one side, everyone cares only for himself and his/her family, and in the other side, many of the United States influenced countries look after their own country and thats it!
I think that the individualism selled as patriotism and nationalism are the source of many of the problems suffered by the world nowadays.Homophobia, xenophobia, severe economic inequality and all of the problems related to lack of empathy are implication of the individualism inculcated by the capitalist ideology. I hope society doesnt wait until its untenable to change.