Why do people want to see society collapse? I don’t think that’s what people really want. People want to tear down the existing system of power and corruption but don’t see that it is collapsing society along with it. It can’t be that they want to tear down the existing system and build back something better—not if society collapses with it. But I don’t think many people have even thought that far.

They have been programmed to desire and consume whatever they are instructed, so when they see something that others have but they do not possess, their emotions take over. This is especially true if the system has been designed to make it impossible for them to achieve what they desire.

While blinded by that emotional state, the...