The thing about the mass dysfunction of an existing ideology and way of life is that it makes everything else possible. After the deluge (or even right before it) you're just asking, "well why not?" Because this way of life that was supposed to be functional and supposedly the only way to go about things has just worked out so well, and now it is on its way out. What to replace it?
Of course everything that is possible eventually gets winnowed down by necessity, competition, and the emergence of new victors which anchor and deepen their newfound power. But hey.
