It'd require something of that scale or something else just as if not more destabilizing and then whatever caused that change would have to be in place for at least a few generations.

It would require a shift in the population's philosophical framework (dare I say it, the population's religion?). My understanding is it's operating from a very materialist framework where there's nothing above Man. Really easy to change the "Rules", toss out "tradition", and do away with every other norm that way. You'd have to get rid of that thinking because that's what's enabled all of the nonsense we're concerned about.