Because if ‘we’ remove purpose, productivity, and achievement from society we will get more mass shooters and other crimes and eventually wars because of the cultural and societal consequences and dependencies that will create. We are already seeing the harbingers of that as ‘we’ in the USA have created/allowed the ‘existence’ of people, groups, and even industries to survive without participation or optimizing their societal and economic success. When I pondered these thoughts as a teenager (1980) I viewed them as ideas and theory; 40 years later I see them as predictive observation.
A protracted, carefully crafted plan to restore freedom and create the circumstances where personal industriousness is sufficient to participate in ensuring society’s success and provide for one’s own needs in that society.
With 1/3 of the federal budget geared towards sustainability of comfortable poverty, we could begin diverting those dollars to a sustainable economy that doesn’t require massive government infrastructure and management. It took us 75+ years to get here: we need to embark on a 25-year plan sociologically, monetarily, and economically to turn the tide that will surely leave us looking like the set of a major Hollywood production of a three-volume series of dystopian novels.
We can start with the Most Holy Washington DC machine.