Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
— Robert Heinlein
Makes me feel like “A Stranger In A Strange Land.”
That is a good one, Phil!
And the elected (!) leader of this dying culture is about to get the power to kill it off.