If all of society’s institutions were to collapse, the only safeguard, the only protection, the only currency, the only thing worth anything would be love. Love for self, love for other, love for what is.
The only way to truly be okay with myself, with others and with the world is to love.
If people get to the point where they no longer agree on any rules of civility, status won’t do it, impressive achievements won’t do it, hoarding gold or natural resources won’t do it, armor won’t do it, weapons won’t do it, escape won’t do it.
Without society’s institutions to imbue technically worthless things with shared meaning, I would find that there is only one thing worth anything: Love.
And where do society’s institutions live right now?
In the mind. They don’t even exist outside imagination.
So what am I waiting for?