In France, you cannot talk or say anything bad or dissident against Muslims and Islam or you'll get mugged, attacked, harassed or beheaded in the name of prophet Mohammad. In the UK, you cannot say that Muslims are the main problem behind the myriad of sexual assaults and crimes in the country or you'll be branded as a racist bigot and the police will put you to the slammer. In the USA, say anything that shows pride of being white and an American makes you a fascist. In Germany, anything that's right-wing in opinion is illegal and can get you to jail. In Sweden, talk about how the Muslims have destroyed your country inside and outside and your fate is worse than those who raped or murdered.
Have you Westerners lost your will to fight to preserve yourselves? Are really this desentized to the point that you're more worried about what the media will have to say against you if you stand up for yourself and your right to exist? Maybe it's cowardice.
The price of specialization is dependency on others, which requires a certain amount of trust in the people one is depending on. And typically, centralization results in more single point failures, and increased efficiency results in less margin for error.
It's a clock that probably can't be turned back, which is why a literal "family farm" probably is a non-starter. But when they went away we also lost an important family-level safety net that never was replaced with anything.