A society that cannot control a five year old except by police action is doomed.
Well, what's doomed is its current mentality and methodology regarding its view of life, individual dignity, government and especially self government.
There's an old saying (I'm the first person I know of who actually used it): Govern yourself or be governed.
Let the doomed part be doomed -- it's dead anyway; life goes on.
The rest of us have a mandate and responsibility to affect our government as being of the people, by the people and for the people as much as we can within our individual and collective spheres of influence.