@RickiTarr

It feels, right now, like we're at this transitional moment -- where a fading order is screaming and ranting and using the last of their strength to grab anyone useful, gullible, greedy, or uncaring enough to join them in smashing it ALL in a fit of rage.

Rage because they're not young anymore. Rage because they can't throw around power like they used to, they don't get the automatic 'respect' they used to, that people -- especially younger people, minorities, people lower in the internal hierarchy that defines their lives, question them and act like equals or even superiors. Angry that they're being judged.

And so as they fade, they're determined to force the world back to how they wished it used to be -- and to wreck anything of value so that no one else will every have their advantages.

They'd rather destroy it all than see the world continue without them. And they've got a lot of allies who'd rather destroy the world than accept one where their gender and skin color doesn't automatically massively privilege them above everyone else.