It has been said that:"America is a giant experiment in contract law".
Law for this, laws for that, laws for everything. Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, as far as the eye can see. judges and courts out the wazoo. Importantly, it was slowly taken over by private and vested interests.
This was the failure point.
It is important to understand that making laws for everything is what strips the social function, strips the underlying human social contract..... from the equation.
Watch this and understand. observe closely the part about the daycare center,and that once broken by the creation of 'rules' (law), the social contract remained broken, even after the law was removed.
Understand that when law intervenes and inflects itself into the given situation, social contract decays. The contractual situation evolves to the lowest common denominator, which is capitalistic low empathy mindsets in control... the given human system becomes broken...and remains broken.
Understand that human beings operate in an atmosphere of social contract. recently it was proven that humans, in any given size of group and group of contacts are NOT naturally warlike, they are peaceful by nature.
IF..one inflicts a legal situation from a top balanced power structure, then social contract is broken and law becomes the operating parameter and social behavior decays.
In other words, humans don't need a strong hand from above, no. Quite the opposite. nor do they need a legal structure to run their lives (religion, etc, not needed)..it is rather that the strong hand and the law is what has broken their natural and normal social contracts.