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Historically, the horrors of WWII were not meaningfully different, except perhaps in their sheer scale, from the horrors of WWI. It goes without saying that the destruction associated with war is not exactly conducive to development of agreed-upon "truth", shared "value" or highly refined culture. But even WWII was roughly 80 years ago! If you still see the world as "crazy", this probably says more about you and your contingent opinions than about what the world is really like. For one thing, in the modern globalized world, "Western culture" is not what it used to be: so much of it is now effectively coming from outside the West proper. Even a term like 'late stage capitalism' really fails to capture this development.