Varied modern harms share a root trend of dissociation

Evidence

We, too, awaken our screens in the morning, and are accosted by headlines announcing epidemics of depression and alienation, the collapse of our most trusted institutions, and the breakdown of our planet’s basic ecological cycles. These harms are numerous and diverse, but they are characterized by a common trend toward dissociation, toward severing and solitude. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 46

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the unifying diagnosis — dissociation — that ties depression, institutional collapse, and ecological breakdown into one pattern.
• XREF: connects to: Destructiveness rises with both damage salience and coordination — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 726