It certainly feels that way. 

However, if we’re going to be honest, we can say that every generation has felt this way. To the extent we feel it today is on a different scale thanks to the advent of our mass communication infrastructure, which has us constantly inundated with what’s happening globally.

Maybe this time will be different?

After all, when you see the way people are behaving, the conflicts that are uprising and the extent to which we are precariously close to having our support systems collapsing (social, economic and environmental)—it provokes anxiety to the highest level.

Sometimes you just want to reach through the technological ether and shake people in hopes that common sense will snap into them. Other times you wonder if you stepped into another reality and need to find your way back. Whatever the observation or feeling, it certainly seems like we all mass dosed crazy pills and need to detox from the horrible effects of them. 

Although, I speculate we are currently transitioning towards a new world and transitions are never easy… or smooth. In my experience, people don’t like change.

Especially when that change involves a loss of power.

Or causes things to look and feel much different.

For our sake, I hope we’re about to enter another Renaissance era, or Enlightenment period and we’re witnessing people fighting against that in the most irrational ways, forgetting that digging their feet in the sand will not stop the tide.

So we’ve either all lost it or we’re all digging our heels while history shifts.