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"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy."
Point being, although developing trends support your statement, I don't think we're so far along that it would take terribly much to revert. And let's be fair, people in third world countries aren't treated so hot.
We're not beyond societal collapse. That can take many forms. EMP/solar flare, a catastrophic natural disaster, a pandemic with an absurdly high casualty rate, worldwide economic calamity, scarcity of life sustaining necessities like water & food, thermonuclear exchanges, etc.
When the proverbial **** hits the fan law & order will quickly break down. And once governments have started their continuity operations and locked themselves away from the outside world, the rest of us get to live in a state of nature.
The awful thing once realization is gained is that we could wake up tomorrow with the ball already in motion for societal collapse which inevitability leads to our demise.