'Building back' implies that first you must destroy. It is a deadly hubris to imagine that you are somehow entitled to condemn and destroy the status quo on the basis that it embodies certain evils. It is pure insanity to imagine that you can then remake a new society from the ruins of the old. Most of what we have, good or ill, has come to us organically through processes we don't understand over aeons of time, and operates in ways well beyond our understanding. If you don't know what you have destroyed, then how can you build back?

Ideologues always have a cartoon version of reality, a simple schematic picture that maps very poorly, if at all, on to the world. Like Plato's parable of the cave, they think that the shadows presented to them are the only truth. The battle we face is what Thomas Sowell called a Conflict of Visions. The arrogance and hubris of the shadow people, who consider themselves geniuses because they have mastered an easily digestible cartoon version of reality, and those who hunger for the truth.