I think your "building" and "tearing down" analogy is actually spot on. We have a whole group of people who are so concerned with what's already built and buil

I think your "building" and "tearing down" analogy is actually spot on. We have a whole group of people who are so concerned with what's already built and building more and more onto it, that any attempt to point out where they went wrong in the foundation is met with criticisms like "all you people want to do is tear things down" and "well if your foundation is so good then why haven't you built as much as us". Look at the whole phenomenon of critical theories, especially critical race theory. People were so enraged by the prospect of having the foundations questioned that the actual criticisms were less important.