It can be stabilizing at the society level, which is what we were talking about because you said, "Western Civilization is in its twilight years. It's going to collapse."

I'm not sure what history you're reading, but people do not get to write laws after most societal collapses. People might think that they're not going to allow themselves to be ruled, but if there's a power vacuum, the fastest way to fill it is with a brutal unconstrained dominance hierarchy which will impose its own rules for the most part. Witness Somalia, for instance.

Even aspirational non-collapse-based revolutions have a very sketchy track record. The French Revolution isn't exactly a highly appealing model; it took close to a century of multiple periods of substantial strife before things settled down. (Not to mention a couple wars of aggression.)

If you're going to claim that you're reading history, not fiction, please actually reference the specific history you're thinking of. So far it sounds like a combination of dystopian collapse fantasy and rainbow-and-unicorns restoration.