I thought the comment above implied that somehow, humanity and its constructed civilisations ought to be stable really, if it wasn’t for the bad actors in the system making such bad decisions, and how it all ends up throwing the system into periods of chaos that end up threatening the system itself with wars, disasters, etc.

My counter to that is that you might be describing a naturally cyclically unstable system (like a a weather system that naturally produces hurricanes or a tornado) and hoping that it somehow becomes stable again as it was back when winds were 5 mph. My counter to that is that it’s just wishful thinking to believe that any system will forever run at low entropy type conditions. It’s very possible that all systems are inherently just cyclical. I don’t see any evidence yet that we are so different from ie any other dominant branch of life in this planet, by which I mean - the dinosaurs went away.

Also - Our obsession with stability often ends up causing more instability not less, because fudging against the natural trend lines of instability and chaos necessary to the system just lead to a repressed energy exploding in our face - sometimes that’s just what happens.