Buddhism

The central task of culture[,] using language, story, myth, ritual, story, ethics, religion, philosophy, art, landscape and whatever else, is to create inner-directed persons who feel a culturally-driven impulse to participate in society, to contribute to it creatively and to restrain negative impulses that tear the social fabric. When cultures lose the ability to do this, and try to impose order by outside methods - law, police force, institutional thought control, compulsory physical regimes such as behavioral trainings, drugs, diet and such like - the results are always disappointing and the society eventually collapses.
		p. 63
Robert A. F. Thurman	"Tibetan Psychology: Sophisticated Software for the Human Brain" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994