Society kind of is degrading. The physical, mental and spiritual are massively degrading.

Even if humanity completed enlightment 2.0 by forcing Brave New World to play out and for humanity to regenerate in large numbers, enabling a modern day caste system of 'better people' ranked from A to Z ,working for Tesla Dynamics and Sinopharm, it would be a small fraction of the breadth of thought of ancient cultures.

I get your idea about the distillation of useful and applicable knowledge and products of cooperation or engineering, but no. Aside from the burning of the diseased and unsightly things, the petridish of humanity will have been neutered of all diverse genetic information in the physical, much the same as our ability to see beyond exploration through trial and error of doubling down on our scientific conviction to carry humanity forward.

It doesn't take much intelligence to see that we have not bettered ourselves without a cost that subjectively would be considered to be not worthy of the sacrifice of the gains I'm not religeous as such, but to the point of ungodly.

Describe to me my errors, and reveal how humanity reaches the zenith through a digitized utopia of mirror and steel.