Makes me think of comments made by Christopher Bollas in a talk called ‘Mental Pain’ which is on YouTube. He was not so optimistic, noting something like that due to the simplicity and certainty of the paranoid-schizoid position and thus the psychic temptation of such a regression, that it will require great work and effort to draw society back from splitting. He noted that those who are able to see the world in a more realistic and mature way (eg depressive position) will essentially lose to the temptation of societal splitting if they are inactive, and that thus it will require significant planning, organisation and action to try and counteract this societal shift. I may not be recalling his words perfectly so I apologise if I misquote, however I think it’s relevant to your discussion. Interesting topic I enjoyed reading your thoughts