All good points. However, it has well been said:
Any idiot can make fish soup out of an aquarium, but it’s a little more difficult to make an aquarium out of fish soup.
IOW, creating a living and thriving society out of the wreckage of the previous one is a great deal more difficult than just maintaining what you had.
Russia is perhaps the best modern example of this principle, but US and Europe are gettting there.
And society has been warned since the ‘60s about the consequences of “free” living but we were laughed at and thought to be idiots and stupid. How could this be when the college professors, free hippies, hollywood and the media said they were entitled to all this “free living”. Well, it is time to pay the piper and I am pissed angry because even thought I was among those who warned, I will be among the ones who pay.
Excellent analogy, don't mind if I use it...