I've been thinking about order and safety, especially how order is commonly conflated with (or mistaken for) safety. Do we want to maintain order, or ensure safety?
To maintain order, you need control. But to ensure safety? You need knowledge, trust, communication, exchange. I would prefer safety - order demands compliance and infringes upon individuality, freedom, diversity.
But is it possible to have safety on a mass scale, without control/order? Of course, the most effective means for order isn't actual control, it's social norms. It's internal, living within and coming from every single one of us, as opposed to being enforced externally.
And if you think about social norms, it's the standards of behavior we follow for the functioning of civil society. I don't think any of us can be even marginally aware of current events without feeling like there's a breaking down of civil society. There's vast disparities in economic opportunity, educational attainment, health outcomes - and trust in institutions to remedy any of these things is very low. What is the incentive for any of us to "behave" if things are not getting better for us?
It's not a far stretch to imagine that the people at the very bottom have even less of a reason to behave. What's the point of following social norms if it's not going to get you anywhere? What's the point of playing by the rules when the rules were designed without you in mind, to keep you down in the first place?