Most Western (can’t speak for the rest) societies aren’t trully Civilized and were maybe never so - they’re just a bit less uncivilized than early XX century and before.

Further, we seem to have been devolving of in the last decades, moving away from Humanist values and increasingly embracing sociopatic inclinations as “our” values (Greed is good, Might makes right, measuring the worth of a person by their possessions and so on).