History is incomplete, in a constant state of transformation, etc. Embrace and accept contradictions, not as anomalies but as necessary parts of a problematic whole. Don't blame the youths of today when your own fires die.

It's no coincidence that all this confusion, resentment, anger and so-called moral decline are happening at a point at which the world's global economy has systematically failed.

We're heading toward barbarism - i.e., the death agony of capitalism itself. But we don't have to let society disintegrate completely. We can (and need to) overhaul the current system - its laws, its governments, its working relations, its entire top-to-bottom set-up. And there are signs that this is happening. Don't forget our demonstrable advancements in togetherness and social consciousness: the Occupy movement, for starters, represents a massive change in how people are getting together and uniting in a common cause.

Keyboard warriors will always cry about fragmentation and disintegration.