There's a good old saying that's very apt for the modern western world, Or more specifically US, UK and a couple of EU countries...
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
We are currently in the latter stage, We have truly weak men in the western world due to testosterone levels plummeting creating highly hyper emotional and mentally unstable men along with an increase in estrogen in mens bodies, That is a dangerous cocktail. And mentally unstable people fighting to sanitize life, Censor words, Radically change language, Trying to tell people that unless they bend to their way of thinking and deny reality they have various phobias etc.... if the UK, US and some EU countries aren't full on 1984-esque dystopian societies by 2030 I will be truly amazed.