Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.