I remember a little nugget from Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" thesis. The masses were typically decent enough people, but they needed the elites to aspire to something greater. Now the masses are engaging in decay and the elites aren't interested in taking up their responsibilities for showing the unwashed how to behave.
Murray was perhaps largely right after all.
If the American public are morally bankrupt and/or the elites are contributing or encouraging that development, it's time to call it out as it is. That the masses are unwilling to look at themselves in the mirror does not negate the truth that they are dirty.
Welcome to the human race. Its dirty down here with us commoners, but that's our species.
I've not read Murphy's thesis, but it sounds semi-pompous. Maybe I'm wrong though...haven't read it.
I don't see any unnatural decay socially. I see change managed poorly.
The rate of technological change has been staggering. The distribution of wealth is lop-sided as hell.
The leaders of the "3rd world" countries are generally greedy bastards who don't care for anything but their bank accounts and the military.
Then there's us in the west...
I see those you call the "elites", whipping the world's populations into a frenzy. Cultivating social upheaval and unrest.
From the moment the central banking system was put into operation, we've been on a collision course with a nasty destiny.
So IMO, the "elites" are fomenting this mess. 9/11, AlQaeda and the boogieman Bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Islamist Jihad and refugees, Terrorist attacks, racial confrontations, Donny Trump and Rocketman.
As it happens, the general public is oblivious for the most part. We're so busy just trying to make ends meat, that it becomes a blur of bad news. But one interesting byproduct of all this upheaval, is anger...on a wholesale scale. Anger that drives people...perhaps...to dredge up an old encounter with a Judge who was a bit of a dick.
This isn't an enlightenment of humans...its a preparation stage.
