() Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro believes America has an “addiction” to abolishing fundamental, traditional structures without thought.

“Scavengers are people who look at all the problems that they have, and they blame that on the system, then the idea is that the system has to be torn down,” Shapiro said of his new book, “Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America (and Her Critics).”

He said these people “look at all the problems in [their] life, externalize those, blame the system, and then unify with others to tear down all of the institutions that have allowed you freedom and success.”

Shapiro says these people do not often have any idea what they would like to build thereafter, but feel a need to tear down a system they hate and see the “only way to fix things is first to tear everything down.”

The co-founder of The Daily Wire adds that this is pervasive in the United States and much of Western society.

“We’ve become, unfortunately, addicted to uprooting things without thinking about why that’s there first. Now, that doesn’t mean that every institution deserves to survive. Some really are corrupted. There are things out there that are bad and that need to be fixed, but (there’s this) unthinking belief that everything needs to be torn down.

“Even the great institutions of America, even the most basic things, family, church, the checks and balances of the American government, you tear all these things down, you’re going to find yourself in a world of hurt afterward,”