A society can stretch itself into a fantasy-land for only so long.
Eventually, reality and natural law will be reasserted with a vengeance.
For example: The Chinese military will not use affirmative action to include 120# girls, open homosexuals and “transsexuals” in their combat ranks, just to make a war with the USA “fair” to both sides.
(I fear this thread has somehow induced me to post lots of obscure references, first to Frankfurt's On Bullsh*t now to a Kipling poem -- still they're a little book, and a poem every FReeper should know.)