@61ennepi politics can revert to relationship fracture & dominance struggle when the higher-order structures of adult civic formation decay.

Decay in the U.S. was driven by multiple reinforcing mechanisms:

1. Anti-intellectual degradation
2. Attention fragmentation
3. Consumerisation of the self
4. Institutional unseriousness
5. Decline of common prestige structures
6. Social trust collapse

…more governable through agitation, fear, dependency, and narrative capture.

US decline=de-formation.