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Chris's avatar

As you rightly point out, this is a well-known phenomenon, and in some circles, they call this deterritorialization (try saying that 10 times fast lol): the feeling that society is crumbling all around you.

Roughly speaking, it entails a feeling of a loss of territory, though that territory is mostly abstract in nature. It is used in critical theory to explain repercussions or causes of events, such as the Dreyfus affair. Because certain social strata fear they are being swept aside, they react in a knee-jerk manner to arrogate power and regain lost territory.

However, although it can be ascribed to a malaise of the older generation giving way to the younger, let's face it, sometimes they may actually be right and society may in fact be crumbling! It wouldn't be too bold to suggest that that is the case today.

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Great history lesson. I do think we are in a different situation now, however, because 5.5 billion people have been injected with the mRNA bioweapon. The lipid nanoparticles are designed to sicken or kill outright, as you know, through heart issues or greatly speeding up cancers by weakening the immune system, among other maladies. So, while you are correct about the past and societies rising then falling from decay primarily or military destruction, none of those societies, even the Islamic ones, promoted mass murder of everyone.

Fred Gwynne was very funny in that movie with Joe Pesce and his description of the "yuts". The expression on his face, a Southerner trying to understand Joe's NJ/NY accent, was priceless. I think it was Gwynne's last movie, too.

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