That's how the mind works. 95% of things might be going right, but that 5% can still kill you. If people understood statistics, they would never play the lottery.

The flip side is that the things going wrong eventually cause people to focus on them and try to fix them.

For instance, is money the social contract enabling mass society, or is it a commodity to mine from society? We assume the later, which tears up the fabric of society, but it functions as the former. Eventually all the "divide and conquer" will not conceal that forever.

Would a spiritual absolute be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, or an ideal of knowledge and judgement, from which we fell?

The father figure lawgiver is a useful social construct, but the aspirational shouldn't be confused with the elemental.

While various schools of thought have a stranglehold on the collective consciousness, their lack of foresight and vision is becoming all too evident.

The more the powers that be insist they are somehow separate from and better than the rest, the more they come to resemble a scab, slowly breaking down and peeling away.