“(This society is in for a bout of soreness akin to the first week of Military Basic Training.)”
Some of them will be.
The rest will do as they’re told and sit down and shut up...possibly with the inevitable “or else” tossed in for good measure.
Every time some one uses “for else” on the forum (which has been happening a lot lately) I keep thinking of the future police trying to apprehend Wesley Snipes in “Demolition Man.”