I think to a large degree this is all that

humanity has left to keep itself occupied. Hoards of University academics that need the moral authority to find, arrest, judge, and punish. What's the industry that allows some to buy new cars, who hires the computer specialists and technicians, who teaches the narratives of morality? It all comes from "catching" people, humiliation, & punishment. It sells the media, it gets the important people stimulated and aroused, it makes cash flow to the justice gurus, and for the most part it hires all the secondary, and other employees of the society. Morality enforcement, courts, religions, get everything else "cooking". With more and more wanting to be on the "profitable" side of the equation, it simply means laws need to get more drastic so that more bad people can be identified and used as collateral damage. In 2025, What else is humanity going to do with itself? Populate Mars? Live in Star Ships? It will continue to consume in greater ways, with greater speed, pollute while it scapegoat's the living shit out of itself, with notions of superiority, and grandstanding. What else do you do with $36 Trillion in debt, and 10 Billion people, on a finite planet that is under siege?