A man wears a cut-out mask at a 'Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!' rally to protest the stay-at-home order in Olympia, Washington. Karen Ducey / Stringer Scott Galloway is a bestselling author and professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The following is his recent blog post, republished with permission. It originally ran on his blog, "No Mercy / No Malice." In it, Galloway questions if America can still call itself a nation, given the increasing evidence of weakened community support and degraded empathy that has been exacerbated during the pandemic. As companies like Amazon and Walmart enjoy massive government stimulus aid, a fourth of Americans can't pay their rent, and many are working low-wage, at-risk jobs to try to keep food on the table. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The pandemic's most enduring feature will be as an accelerant of existing trends.