That's probably how it will happen, usually things have to kind of reach a fever pitch before we've had enough of the suffering and transcend it. However it's not always the case.
It often feels to me we are between these 2 possible outcomes of dystopia and the liberation or Renaissance. Yet I realize it seems to be both and there are many possibilities for where it could end up. I guess that keeps life exciting though. We never really know what's going to Halen.