http://www.zippittydodah.com/2021/06/this-is-root-cause-of-present-state-of.html

You can see where things are headed by the events that mark the progression of them. I used to have an allegorical construct, which I employed to explain how conditions come about in a culture, or a person, in decline. Think of a flushing toilet. The water swirls at the top and winds its way down and out. It's a simple process. Let's put it into a simple construct. Let us compare it to the stages of alcoholism as the degeneracy goes through its unvarying pattern.

At the top of the swirl is a continuum of sorts, in which you see a routine series of events that repeat themselves in a predictable fashion. Then the toilet water drops to a lower circling and occurrences that seldom ever happened, begin to happen. The swirl drops lower and these occurrences become habitual. Then the swirl drops even lower and incidents that were once rare anomalies, start to take place in a regular fashion. As long as there is water in the bowl, the anomalies continue to mutate into a regularity of appearances, into a remorseless pattern, as the swirls descend to each new level. Then, inevitably, the water disappears and heads to the septic tank, the sewer, or the waste reclamation center... or a leach field for that matter. The point is that it is adios to your drinking problem... for the moment.