De-moral-ized

de·mor·al·ize (verb)
1. cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope; dispirit
2. corrupt the morals of (someone)

The first and most common definition of the term 'demoralize', is in reality, the effect of being demoralized. The 'loss of confidence or hope' is an effect of the subconscious (or conscious) recognition that the current environment is out of tune with one's instinctual morality.

The act of separating morality from economic, political, and social decisions guarantees demoralization because it becomes exactly what is capitalized on.

Our society treats demoralization as if it were a virtue. 'Business is business'. 'Unbiased analysis.' 'Free markets.' These phrases actually describe the application of immorality.

The hidden cost of immorality is societal demoralization. Immorality is contagious, once it emerges in a marketplace, any marketplace, it forces the rest of the market to capitulate in order to compete, as it provides short-term efficiency improvements at the cost of morality.

This is why a strong leader, with a Will To Moralize, is required to curtail free markets, all free markets.

The collective effects of societal demoralization are most felt in the public sphere, the place where individual moralities are aggregated into a societal morality through a constant negotiation that defines what is right and what is wrong, what is honorable and what is shameful.

As public life is eroded by the free market; immorality, and consequently, demoralization, spreads like wildfire across the population. In other words, with the loss of public life, comes the loss of morality. The public sphere has become effectively demoralized. De-moral-ized.