I have serious doubts. I think we have passed the tipping point.
For some insight as to why I would recommend reading Morris Bermans’ Trilogy of works on the decline of the American Empire: The Twilight of American Culture, Dark Ages America and Why America Failed.
Back in 2000 Bergman cites four factors leading to the decline of the country: growing social and economic inequality, declining returns on investment in societal structures, the erosion of intellectual standards and critical thinking, and what he called the“spiritual death” of the country. And I believe that since first posited it has become progressively worse not better.
By spiritual death he does not mean the death of religion, believing that Nietzsche was right and when we accepted that we sought spirituality in other philosophies such as communism, fascism, and yes, capitalism to fill the void but these too have failed us. After these systems also failed us (and that capitalism is presently in its death spiral), we no longer search for anything requiring any depth of thought or consideration; that we have become so shallow both in our wants and our needs.
As he stated in a recent article “You’ve got a deep systemic emptiness. This comes from the fact, in the case of consumerism, capitalism and so on,that you’ve embraced an ideology without knowing it’s an ideology, whose basic philosophy is ‘more’.” and that “more”, particularly when the focus is on the acquisition of “physical stuff” is not a spiritual path.