Your pragmatic account of a stable society based on conflict is an interesting one. It might be the wise course, but it conflicts with what I see as the anti-natural, promethean quest of civilization.

You might be interested in the articles linked below. The first one explores this nonrational existential function we may have to be godlike destabilizers, making the pragmatist a stick in the mud, as it were. The second one contrasts Bataille's view of sacred waste with the neoclassical economist's pretense that we aim for equilibrium. The third article considers socialist solutions for a stable society that provide escapes from nature's prison.

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/the-promethean-revolt-and-the-cosmic-meaning-of-art-a43dd213ee91?sk=c53c9da512ed22b88d192242ba44070c

https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/georges-bataille-on-free-market-utopianism-d16357706541?source=friends_link&sk=cee94456a755c218cc241b9855b0779d

https://medium.com/@benjamincain8/socialist-fantasies-and-the-escape-from-natures-prison-fceb3fbf251a?source=friends_link&sk=8ad05046d14273ca5f2599d3c80b4dab