Follow the Yellow Brick Road??

Should the road that we follow be paved with the Golden Rule?  Treat others as you wish to be treated?

There was a point in life that everyone followed the Golden Rule (or a majority of the people), but it seems at if we have strayed away from that.

The paths that we walk on are no longer paved with the decisions that we make based on the Golden Rule, but it's more-so that people make careless decisions and don't even care how the treat another human.

How have we managed to stray away from such a "rule"?  It went from being the basis of a lifestyle, to being the motto of "goodies".