I agree that it seems as though a new sensibility is on the verge of emerging. If I may, I would say that it can be summed up more formally in a few words: mutual respect as the ethic of justice.

The "respect" to which that refers is of the most basic kind: taking one another into account as we live our separate lives together in this world.

Most people can probably see how a society governed by mutual respect would have the maximum liberty that co-existing humans can share and a democratic political process.

To take one another into account is to refrain from imposing ourselves on one another. That provides the maximum social space for all people to live their lives as they choose: liberty. Respecting others in that way does not preclude 'being there' for others and assisting others.

Of course, there must be laws: That is where democracy enters the picture. The essence of a democratic political process is that all citizens are granted participation in it (via freedom of speech), so all are at least minimally taken into account.

That leaves the economy. I have found that there is a way to apply the "democratic distributive principle" that underlies the distribution of political rights in a democratic political process to the economy, via a "democratically distributed income." The irrefutable outcomes for society are astonishing: no unemployment, poverty, taxes, or public debt and increased sustainability.

A future for humanity that is better than the present (or any time in the past) is available through mutual respect as the ethic of justice.