Keep in mind it took biology about a billion years to go from colonies of single celled organisms to multicellular organisms, so the last several thousand years of going from small social groups to trying to figure out societies of millions of individuals would be a normal rate of evolution.

The big problem seems to be that we develop governments as forms of communal nervous systems, executive and regulatory, to give focus to the group, along with banking and money as a form of blood and circulation system to equalize resources. Yet with government having developed enough to recognize it serves as a public utility, but not yet to the stage of recognizing the same principle applies to banking, we are in the stage of the banks having their "Let them eat cake." moment. Where the units of exchange, essentially community tokens, have become the object of focus. The medium has become the message.

Given this has totally hollowed out Western civilization, as all value dissolves into cash, in order to be siphoned off and everything turns to Boeing, from industry to healthcare to education etc, while the rest of the world looks on, we are in a learning period.

Trial and error.