A “midlife crisis”???
More like a cultural crash into the deepest abyss of ignorance and stupidity - as if eighty or ninety percent of the population had regressed to a mental age of six or seven, if that.
“More like a cultural crash into the deepest abyss of ignorance and stupidity”
Or a coup. Destroy from within. Jackals and lions.
You know, that if that 50-year old man with a pot belly, believing that his new sports car and gold chain are somehow going to make him attractive to young women half his age, were to crash and die in traffic while driving said sports car, he would run into trouble at the Pearly Gates, as St. Peter would not be able to recognize him from the Book of Life.
Ending not in judgment, but in Limbo. And not the dance, either.
People have so failed in developing the basic and necessary art of critical thinking, they do not even know what they do not know. They form opinions based on the last conversation they had with other well-meaning but totally ignorant cohorts.
Sheeple is really too kind of a term. Sheep have a function, this herd does not.