The world is becoming bipolar

We live on an overpopulated planet, and people are becoming progressively more uncomfortable. When rats are crowded in a cage, they often fight an destroy each other, and we are observing a similar phenomenon in the world as a whole now. So, rather than seeking "consensus", people are now seeking fundamentally new approaches that might actually work. Of course, most of them won't work very well, at all, but, when people are uncomfortable enough, they are willing to try anything, no matter how questionable, in the hopes that it might change things for the better, or, at the very least, get them somewhere else, where they might have some ideas about how to change things for the better. This is the essence of the dialectical method, as Hegel conceived it -- thesis, antithesis, synthesis. You have to try new things, extreme things, to make any progress, at all. Otherwise, you're just running in place. Consensus, generally, is just running in place, and running in place isn't working very well. Of course, those who are actually doing well, would much prefer that everyone continue running in place, because they don't want things to change much. This creates constant conflict.