Yes, I too sense we've become more utilitarian as a symptom of increasing disaffection.
I believe the problem began to ramp up in the sixties when moms were taken out of the home and placed in the workforce in greater numbers.
This helped make them more of a thinker ... and less of a feeler.
So, between kids being without their mom, and the mom they did get when she was available becoming less of a feeler, subtlties in disaffection began to creep into the home.
After a couple of generations of increasingly more of that, we now have a lot more affectively detached people running around.
Such people have more of a utilitarian foundation, whatever seems to work for them, even if it ignores how things truly are and disrespects the rights of others.
I don't know what the solution to this is.
But I'm hoping that someway we can correct this mistake in direction and make a u-turn to a return to traditional motherhood that should help reverse this sad situation and that people might once again be more ontologically based and utilitarian a distant third after an epistemological second, which reflects respect for the way we're made.
