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[–]Wrangel 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Baltic countries have had two big wars, a complete systemic implosion in the 90s and several years of Stalinism. People are focused on survival because surviving was hard. Big parts of the US have never really experienced war and no part of the US mainland has experienced war in 155 years. The US hasn't really had a proper famine and surviving has been really easy.

Survival values won't come from us telling them to focus more on survival values, they will come from a pandemic, mass rioting and looting, economic despair and hardship. From time to time a country has to go through a rough patch in order to keep itself from decaying.