Many of the problems in existence come from having bad relationships and are structured by them.  For instance, climate change is a planetary problem.  Yet at its core is the obstacle of societies that cannot get their act together yet because they are structured by bad relationships -- between the rich and those who are taken advantage of, autocrats and everyday people, and within identities that are hardened and exclusive in eschewing both common humanity and thoughtfulness with all the other beings living on Earth.  

Even in academia, so much that is alienating or frustrating comes from or is structured by bad relationships:  competition that does not bring everyone up, status snobbery, ego, etc.  Students working the system similarly are dogged by bad relationships and often, tragically, reproduce them.  The cynicism shaping their realistic outlook on life attests to a world fallen apart in many ways.  

Finally, so many people walk around with the effects of bad relationships inside them, continuing to make other people suffer because they cannot transform their pain or identify the ways in which they were neglected and did not have their basic human needs met.  Plato was accurate that the psychological is a key to much politics gone wrong.  Liberalism and socialism both need to focus more on psychological deformation of the values and ends that politics expresses or pursues.  But Plato's impression of justness is self-enclosed and abstract, oddly impersonal.  The key to the psychology is in good interpersonal relationships as a moral foundation. 

One night in 2023 taking a break from child care, thanks to my dad coming over to sit and read at our home in case the kids woke up, Misty and I were out.