A broken bone which is supported by muscle, such as a collar bone, can really start to hurt when that supportive muscle is exhausted. This basic relation, though dissimilar to society in many ways, can shed some light on some of our problems too.
Really, a society itself must constantly incorporate energy into itself and organize itself so as to maintain itself, so that all of its constituents have the strength and vitality to support each other. Today, that simply doesn't seem to be the case.
Part of the confusion and pain behind all of this, then, may very well owe itself to a working ideal that assumes all of the productive, materially efficacious, and organizational capacity of our society is still intact, and that if only we put the pieces together where they should go, then everything will be able to support each other.
And that ideal is coming up against a reality that everything is in fact weakened, and exhausted simultaneously, and upon acting against each other, further advance themselves into that state.
