Joan Didion's 1968 Slouching Towards Bethlehem reflected on fragmentation of society and morality.  Slouching, the idea of reluctantly and somewhat aimlessly getting to a "better place" is often referenced, not by realists or sincere critics, but by unhappy progressives, terribly concerned that we aren't getting there soon enough.

When it comes to totalitarianism and its mass rape of communities and continents to increase state surveillance, state control, and state power, slouching is nowhere to be found.  In pursuit of war and promotion of the state's own welfare, we can identify not a single slouch, not a lazy man or woman in the bunch driving the statist train, the totalitarian globalist vision.

On the other hand, the masses employed by, and receiving temporary benefits from the state – through war employment, fascist corporate capitalism, and welfare statism – are never particularly productive.  Their time, talent and energy is always misdirected and malformed, wasted at best and monstrous at worst.  Unlike in a free society, where producers and consumers seek an ever-shifting balance to please themselves and others, driving production and innovation in a civil, tolerant and friendly way – state economies depend on war and fear of war to drive the majority into panicked groups, desperate to live for one more day, into smaller and smaller control systems or chutes, as it were.