Rudyard Kipling saw all this a century ago:
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Kipling was a prophet, for sure. thanks for posting his awesome prose.
Kipling’s “Et dona ferentes” is also apposite to this thread.
Anglo-Saxon countries will take a certain level of crap, but when a critical level is reached all hell breaks loose.