From Contexts of Optimal Growth in Childhood by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
The process of societal regulation can only take spontaneously when there is an intact community responsible for its own self-preservation. When social structure is changing too rapidly, when there are no legitimate lines of authority, when norms fluctuate and have no hold on members' behavior, the safeguards against over-reproduction are undermined, and the conditions are set for a return to a state of nature "red of tooth and claw."
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