I suspect that neither feral, unregenerate females nor feral unregenerate males are for any sort of civilization or any Messianic Era (the last thingk they want is spiritual civilization let alone tangible and temporal civilization): they play along only as required.
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public." - Bryan White
It may be more along the lines of: the feral are unable to maintain civilization and therefore to hand civilization's controls over to them, logic would have it, would lead to injury, destruction or demise of that civilization. Many pests and pathogens only prosper in squalor; give them a clean or orderly environment and they 'blue screen'. There are those who literally need filth or darkness in order to survive or thrive. (You know like mold, roaches, etc.) They of course will see themselves as 'progressive' or 'artists' with regard to their affinity for filth.
I suspect the moral of the story is: if you hand controls over civility to the feral they will, in obeisance to their own nature, destroy it.