It's really weird. I live abroad now, and I know someone from the UK (older than me) who just watches videos of people in the US apparently just walking in and stealing things from stores because nobody is following the law anymore.

A family member (older than me) describes the well off suburb we grew up in as a mad max warzone that is essentially parallel to what the UK guy described.

When I ask people my age who are still living there, they have no idea what I'm talking about and say it's the same as it's always been.

These people are plugged in to some freakish media.