This is a massive topic on which I have no answers, but is at the core of modern life and most of my writing.
Today I happened upon an article about Hyundai Heavy Industries. Hyundai is at the center of an entire city, Ulsan, South Korea, where it owns residences, schools, stores and universities. Hyundai Heavy Industries has started to decline rapidly due to global competition, leading to massive layoffs. Not only have current employees jobs disappeared, but students, who focused their studies on attaining employment at Hyundai Heavy Industries have lost the prospective careers. These people, this entire city, trusted in the continued success of Hyundai and are now suffering for it.
Elemental gods used to be the explanation for unexpected events, but understanding these events scientifically has moved the responsibility onto humans to predict and avoid disaster. At the same time this knowledge has enabled us to create even larger, more complex, interconnected systems that we have had much less time to experience, study and understand.
We have created a phenomenal monster that is far larger than any individual, but do not have anything far larger than an individual willing and able to take responsibility for it. We are left with responsibility for ourselves in a world where we cannot prepare for the future, so the basis of trust, the ability to trust ourselves has been eroded.
This is at the center of the far right movement, trying to get back to a world that people understand how to succeed within, where they can trust themselves. It is also at the center of millennial's fear of commitment, to owning houses, cars, getting married.
The core of Buddhism focuses on this issue. We will see if its following grows, but I think most people will find its conclusions unsatisfactory.