Everyone builds a model of how the world works in their mind. The source of the model is the interaction of their genetics with their many, varied, experiences. The model is maintained and improved as long as it works well enough. But we are living through so many rapid changes in the world that the models in many people’s heads are not working very well.

Your question becomes can enough people revise their models fast enough, using all of the new information that surrounds them, so that most of us can survive the many transitions.