I assert that we are at the breaking point of our current social structure. Listen, and one can see the hate and vitriol been spawn from the media. Look around at the protests and gatherings that are becoming more violent. Check the hate on social media (even if the moderators see the hate in a biased way).
Families, friends, and co-workers try to maintain civility, but it's an uneasy peace and a shaky truce. Churches are divided internally and externally. Secular organizations maintain an unstated ceasefire, but it is only a comment away from being fractured.
One can walk into a public space and see the divide between the masked and unmasked as they glare at each other. That is, if you live in a place without a mandate. But, if masks are mandated, the hostility gets suppressed and it seethes under the surface.
Bumper stickers expressing viewpoints can often lead to folks flipping the bird or honking and gesturing at the offending driver. Likewise, neighborhood yard signs that state political or religious views are often the source of fights, displays of rage and anger, and sometimes vandalism.
The fabric that is holding society together is stretched to the tearing point. It may not take much before things decline into civil war or chaos.
Then anarchy becomes the dictatorship and tyranny of the strongest survivor to reclaim some sense of order before everyone is destroyed.
The breakdown is inevitable and is just a matter of time.
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