I didn’t invent the term Fafocene – or rather, I did, but I was not the first person to do so. However, it seems like I am the first to popularise it.
“Fafocene?” You ask. Well, there’s a graphic for that.

And now I wonder if it might not be worth exploring this in more depth. – Explore its causes, signs and symptoms, the prognosis. If I had the time/expertise/money it would be a podcast, a la Heather Cox Richardson. But I don’t, so, there’s that.
A few years ago, on another site, I did ‘doom diaries‘ for a month, so this could be a kind of sequel to that…
Mind you, what was that warning of Freddie Nietzsche’s about staring into the abyss?