In most cases, when a culture begins to go bad, the darksome elements within that culture crowd out the more normative folks. The difficulty in my country is that the general cultural neutral, the 'first position,' the episteme, the topos, the what you will -- the general disposition that characterizes encounters within that society is precisely where the indolence, malice and corruption are arising.
The contrary would be some sort of Prussian/Napoleonic ethic, I suppose, one characterized by its claims to being the proper set of proprieties, and rigorously observed. But there are other dispositions and comportments.