Is everything falling apart?
Everything is not falling apart, though certain institutions may be falling apart.<p>In America, there&#x27;s definitely been a breakdown of belief in its own institutions.  Far more people are skeptical of things like journalism and Silicon Valley; it really wasn&#x27;t that long ago that the former was constantly salivating over the latter, but now it&#x27;s more of an openly vulture-carrion relationship because that caters to public sentiment.  People who I would consider &quot;normies&quot; even don&#x27;t trust law enforcement and the FBI anymore (not that they ever should have).  Even the education system from K12 to college is increasingly being seen as a joke and an outright racket.  We also went from the President being a more respected position to one deserving of relentless tabloid gossip.  Even if one&#x27;s &quot;guy&quot; is in office, I don&#x27;t think we feel the same about it the way we did even as recent as Obama, and his administration was when we really began to see the social cracks forming.<p>Civilization ebbs and flows, but I think the current sentiment is unprecedented in my lifetime.  This is not a high point by any stretch of the imagination, and while I see &quot;everything is collapsing&quot; to be hyperbolic, it seems inevitable that many things we thought were rock solid are in a transition period where either they will reform or one day be replaced with force of some kind.