There surely must have been civilizations and cultures that did the exact opposite of this - such as cultivate spontaneous teamwork (ex. Confucianism, dragonboat culture in China) have inter-familial bonding (Sioux, Navajo, Inuit etc.) and promote self-study as a way to exercise compassion (Mahayana Buddhism in Tibet). It really makes me happy in a way that the American Imperial Empire is declining from within (the only way that America could ever be defeated) and despite all its horribleness, it's time to let the rest of humanity take the reigns, and do so without fear of being bombed back to the stone age by Dumbericans.