Hmmmm....
The intent of the builders you say?
Gen 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Gen 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Funny, dosn't look like the builders were doing anything wrong. They were all happy that they were united and a capable people, the tower was gonna be tall and symbolize them.
You could say it was arogance, but God makes no mention of that. Instead he says:
"and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
Sounds more like he's afraid of all the things humans can do when they are unified, and anything they wish will come to them. So God screws em up in an arbitrarily concived scheem to stay in power, and thwart human unity.
So we could safely say, that the reason the world is in such turmoil to day is because God destroyd our sense of unity all the way back in the tower of Bable. Before that event we were capable of working together to achive anything we wanted, after it, we were reduced to a bunch of quibbling madmen.
Nice going God!