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Nichtcrawler-X posted...

"The country"?

This. Everything has a dynamic/happy undercurrent if the country feels as if it's on the rise/improving/admirable. Everyone living there (unless discriminated against, of course) feels like they are contributing to a whole that they want to be a part of.

If, instead, the country feels like it's incompetent or just existing to make the rich richer...then everything has an undercurrent of dirty pointless selfishness. Things have been sliding towards the latter in the US for quite a while: you could pick many start points, but I'll go with Reagan and the end of the Cold War in the 80s. We won, but we lost our righteous purposefulness in the process and Reagan greatly accelerated the path towards greed. But everything has felt outright dirty since we elected Trump. Before him I never would have thought the country was SO gone as to elect an obvious, obvious con man President. Now I sadly know better.

My personal finances/etc...whatever. If my life fits into a greater purpose I can at least somewhat happily fit myself into it. If not...gross existential crisis.

And while I'm at it lets add nuclear war also. Do we think that we, as a species, are going to be able to avoid using those on ourselves again? It's a matter of time.