Any group that collectively has "if it feels good, do it and damn the consequences" aas its prime motivating factor will never build, only take and destroy.

Take the book you turned me on to "The Africa House". Africans were there 50 million years and produced grass huts. A Brit ex-officer turns up and makes bricks, builds them brick houses and himself an English estate all in a few years. He died and they went back to living in grass uts becasue they refused to maintain the brick houses.

"The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017

"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo