This innate conservatism and resistance to change is of course well known. This is why we have expressions like "never let a crisis go to waste".

The idea is that during stress periods collective behavior is more open to extraordinary measures and changes.

But as a strategy for steering ourselves to a safer place this is a deeply problematic approach.

Leaving aside that waiting for crises to change anything is absurdly risky, it is also very undemocratic: Bypassing consensus at gun point.