disinhibition

During an interview about the 2024 election, a rabbi offered the wisdom that to get through these tough times here in America with all the pain, dread, fear, sorrow, loss, terror and collective disinhibition we are seeing, we are going to need to build our own inner Noah’s Ark. As bad as today is, it is good as compared to what comes next.

If America is like other societies that have succumbed to autocracy and authoritarianism, there will be mass disinhibition.

I often wonder if Ed Wood is running the simulation that is the Age of Trump and the ridiculous and horrible and utterly surreal things that have now become the norm as American society and politics succumb to the spectacle that is authoritarian populism, naked kleptocracy, mass disinhibition, and a public mesmerized and zombified by the human zoo that is social media and digital culture and the screens on their various devices.

“Disinhibition” is a word that has recently migrated from the lexicon of psychology into that of American politics.

The press is finally starting to report how much Trump's behavior aligns with what medical experts cite as signs of age-related cognitive decline: such as disinhibition, confusion and erratic moods.