The encouragement of hate, outrage, prejudice, and mis- and disinformation. It's pretty transparent - we see the expected outcomes.

this is how a high-trust society devolve into a low trust society. It's quite alarming, and it seems to me, that nothing is being done to reverse it.

By the time the "regular" people feel it (ala, the rich people), the problem may be irreversible.

What are you doing about it? Let's start now.

> By the time the "regular" people feel it (ala, the rich people), the problem may be irreversible.

I think they definitely feel it. You can see it here on HN. You can see it everyone resigning, in the vogue of despairing and not caring.

> We've become transactional and virtual/online communities are not sufficient.

Yes. This is the commodity fetish and alienation that Marx spoke of. It is the natural consequence of unfettered capitalism that seeks to maximally exploit the labor class.

All day long, every day, the news media attempts to gin up more wars. They foster ignorance, fear, and hatred. Foreign leaders who haven't been in the news for years are made the primary focus overnight, just because that's where we're supposed to bomb next. Not all of us can even imagine why we should fight people in other hemispheres who've never done anything to us, so our fear and hatred lands closer to home. That's a big reason we have such tyrannical prison sentences.

If we didn't have a gigantic military that spends over a trillion dollars a year on the purchase of armaments, our armaments manufacturers would have less money to make our news media insane.