Replying to Broken society

In my world history class I am writing an essay. The essay is about three wandering scholars who have to fix a broken society. fictional or nonfictional. The three scholars are a Buddhist, Confucianist and a legalist. While trying to get ideas for the essay someone said that I should just write about the skiing society. This made me think about whether or not it is actually broken. The more I think, the more I come to realize that our society is riddled with drug use, discrimination, segregation, theft (organized and unorganized) and no one really tries to fix anything. Is our society really broken or am I just thinking way to hard?