Evolution progresses through a cycle of Feast and Famine.
The Feast floods the world with material success.
Material success increases experimentation and exploration.
Such rapid change creates barriers to emotional connection, thus
weakening established social structures.

People who cannot make emotional connections reflexively pursue power and dominance. It is the survival strategy of the isolated.

As a result, these emotionally disconnected, isolated people develop the belief that laws and technology can replace the eroding social structures they had never been a part of… in a way that they can understand and control.

This pursuit creates the next famine.
Famine forces people to try and re-establish old emotional connections
in order to survive,.. but the damage is too great.
Sustained emotional connections will reinvent social structures;
often with new elements better suited to the environment.
These new social structures carry communities out of famine.

Only during a famine does it becomes clear that the emotionally connected enjoy the only true wealth.