Peter’s Grievance Studies documentary was my very first step in awakening to social and political realities, I’m ever grateful. The social contract revealed in public toilets and littering is something I notice a lot at home in Australia and when travelling. Here people would and “should” consider confronting any person who egregiously spoiled the public space, I think that’s a positive sign because there’s a sufficiently established norm of respecting the space such that wanton littering or defiling the toilet stands out as offensive (like sitting next to someone in Seattle?). It helps to have confidence the offender isn’t carrying a gun, of course. But relative wealth equality makes a big difference here, I believe the genuine sense that we are all in the same economic system where everyone can succeed helps maintain that sense of community and respectful behaviour. If people feel that they are in a completely different system, and this can be cultural as well as economic (eg indigenous people or gypsies might feel more removed), there’s far less compulsion to behave. I worry that even the Australian sense of commonality and community is eroding due to social and economic changes. We usually follow the USA and UK after a decade or two.