The future belongs to low trust societies where no one gives a shit about each other but is fervently nationalistic about the collective. "Not my problem" is the most efficient basis for any social order. Ants don't give a fuck when the drone next to them keels over. They just harvest the body and drag it back to the nest to be cannibalized.

A group that doesn't give a shit about each other always becomes devoted to the State as a substitute for interpersonal bonds. This explains what you see in "not my problem" societies like China, India, and Russia, all of which are hypernationalistic.

Turns out that "does nothing" and "not my problem" are the key to superpower status. Insectoids will inherit the world and the gweilo's empathy will be his downfall...or downfarr.