As the late, great Brian Redhead said:
Not so much a Country; as an overlarge Play-group
All those years ago, he could never have known how true his descriptor would turn out to be!
He was describing the antics of the inhabitants of most of a large landmass. (Western hemisphere).
Today, we have become all too well-aware of the dis-ease (not 'disease') spreading like a miasma throughout the Western world in particular.
Fomenting -
Dissent
Distrust
Disquiet
Disrupting everyday lives of law-abiding citizens. Spreading calumny, creating truth fakery, disinformation. Riding rough-shod, vandalising monuments, distorting history.
Accepted and lapped-up by the gullible hoi poloi frequenting social media.
A term much used by a former colleague springs to mind 'whited sepulchres'. Or ought it in today's parlance be 'blackened sepulchres'... sounds about right.
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