A story of human cooperation : The backwards-walking people

Imagine for a second that you were born in a village where people walked backwards. Babies after their birth learned to walk in the same manner by observing their parents.
People looked forward while walking backwards. This led them to develop a tightly knit networks of cooperative work.
They relied heavily on the feedback received from other people walking in the opposite direction to guide themselves through the mazes of the city.
They worked in a cohesive way, getting and giving pointers and guidance from each other about how to navigate their different routes.
With time they managed to work out a complex system that included codes representing different objects and actions.
They had elaborate signals for the distance and the direction of each movement. They also exchanged information about how high should their feet go, the amount of pressure applied on the surface and a myriad of other messages.
Within this structure, they could easily avoid obstacles, holes or deal with any sudden change on the surface they were walking on.
Reciprocity as a social constituent is the corner stone of such society.
Their member worked like a unified body with multiple cogs and gears.
A high level of trust held the nation together while a high level of distrust caused accidents, cancelled meetings and failed projects, heavily affecting the economy of the country and the well-being of its people.
We are these people, we walk differently, but we are as dependent on each other as they are.
We need the farmer to provide us with wheat, we need the baker to turn it into bread, we need the mason to build the bakery and we need the carpenter to provide him with a wooden peel to be able to lay the bread in the oven.
We are the links of a long chain, the essence of which is cooperation and trust.
The presence of these elements is pivotal to the smooth working of the machinery of our society.
Complicated rules and norms are the results of a malfunctioning society.
A weak trust leads to a jumble or convoluted, artificial rules and contracts.
When individualism, distrust and lack of cooperation dwindle in a society, we all suffer.