You'll see the same trends in software. The healthy greenfield projects and disruptive startups share cultures of competitive individuals united by a greater fight, but the real challenge is adapting the culture to slower growth or steady-state maintenance... the faster the change the harder it gets.

America's is a young nation that has been constantly growing and fighting for much of hour history, we have never sat still for long enough to develop a more mature unifying ethos. Our culture is crumbling because it's at odds with the world we now live in.