Why do I ask this question?
Because there are blatant indicators.
Caveat: this isn't another attempt to project blame for systemic failure onto social institutions and leadership or to be seditious or call for rebellion like a childish activist. It is to suggest our highest social institutions are no longer apparently able to cope satisfactorily under current conditions and are allowing the system to slowly collapse. My personal view if anyone is to blame is that it's the people on the whole who are fully complicit, not leadership. The people always select their leadership, in the end. And leadership always does what the dominant collective group demands. Notwithstanding the justice in it all.
This is not to say it's happening. It is to say there are strong indicators. Yes, these indicators might be signalling something completely different. This is the purpose of proper scrutiny. If you make it illegal to scrutinise indicators that is merely reinforcing the possibility it is true.
So let's start with that one:
Proper scrutiny of great social problems is no longer permitted
Leadership roles are increasingly being filled with fukwits and demagogues
Large factions of the public are openly saying they hate the west
Numerous politicians are making a stand on hating the west
Corruption and embezzle is rife in charity, government, monopoly corporations to the extent even the robbed are starting to acquiesce to it
I've had friends for 20 years who though wealthy have always hated the handd which feeds them
Being religious - except for some specific religions, draws hate
Speaking up about any of this has risked jail
Some law is being created which claims to save yet specifically targets
The judiciary are seen as less just than they used to be
Education teaching young children degenerate ideas
Universities running as activist institutions
National treasures such as the BBC no longer reliable for news and seen to be spouting anti west propaganda
Large groups of people running cover for systemic crimes mentioned above
Politicians buying votes with welfare, block voting
Juries being intimidated into convicting
Corporations doing what their told to do against the free market
Pandemic where the state lies about efficacy interventions repeatedly
Large groups of the public, from no specific class or group, willingly taking unneeded destructive hand outs and exploiting at scale during systemic shocks
Government activist groups overturning a plebiscite
The pillars of state clearly fighting for overall power notwithstanding the will of the people through democratic due process
These are all speculations, some more likely to be true than others. The point being that they're all being intensified over the past thirty years or so, accelerating significantly for the past ten years.
Maybe this has always been the case, it's hard to tell when you live in the woods.
More to be added