I spent a lot of time around it.
I was unprepared for how much white trash had adopted all aspects of it when I moved back South.
White gangstas who can only speak Ebonics....unbelievable
There are meaningful warnings that history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too.
The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Harvard Address
June 8, 1978
That is so hard for me to imagine. Another walk in the TwilightZone.