Isn't the Tower clearly warning (in the light of your question) that all this wanton selfishness, superficiality, destruction & plain greed MUST & soon WILL HAVE TO STOP?!
I think we all recognize that there's been a wake-up call but everyone sees the changes needed differently - more government controls, less government controls, more support for big business (in the hopes of a trickle-down effect), more support for the 99% and social services. Certainly, if the Tower kept coming up in almost every reading, I'd be really worried. As it is, in just one reading, especially where the question was descriptive, not predictive, it's not necessarily heralding total disaster.
Also, if the Tower were an advice card, it would NOT be advising, "Stop." Rather it would be suggesting, "Blow your top."
One of the things that Eliphas Lévi and Oswald Wirth tried to do, by having the Tarot at the center of their occult philosophy, was to understand the deepest level energy dynamics that characterized a card. It's the difference between saying a person is acting crazy so he should be locked up, and determining what is the genetic or social-environmental source of the craziness so that it can be dealt with most appropriately.