Is It Possible to Shrink the Beast and Keep The Good Parts?

I really like the idea of shrink the beast and grow the man, but I also have the nagging suspicion that you can't pick and choose which parts to shrink. It's like a big, precarious Jenga tower. If you like having reliable electricity or computers, for example, you also have to have crapflation and far left wing lunacy like trannies in the olympics competing against women.

It somehow all works together as a unified entity. It really wouldn't take much to collapse the whole thing. If a significant fraction of the population became more conscious, for example, via a religious movement, it'd all crumble and a new system would pop up in place of the old one.

The basis of the whole thing is people need to eat--the stomach is a bottomless pit--and people tend to build systems to satisfy their needs rather than just solve them. All of the complexity grows up out of that original system.

The break-away societies, like the Amish, or other small groups who are skeptical and pick and choose what they're going to accept seem to have a plausible method for shrinking the beast, but if a critical mass of the general public followed suit, the the system would implode. If it were a gradual change, though, the whole of the society could maybe change as well.