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> When people start claiming that we are experiencing 'a world gone mad' or 'group hysteria' or, as in this case, "Definitional Collapse", it makes me wonder if that person's context or worldview is one of those that is under pressure.

I can’t find it, but I remember someone on HN sharing one of the earliest movies from the early 1900s of a farmer born in the 1800s critiquing “modern” (1900s) city life.

I can see how cultural/technology change takes some flexibility and effort to learn how to survive or thrive in a new environment and how that is probably annoying as you get older.

I’d imagine it’s like you mastered, excelled or did well at a game and now someone’s changing the rules. I’m sure it’s also embarrassing or isolating if the rules of the game change but you don’t/won’t adapt and fewer people want to play the game of life according to your now less popular rules.

But in watching that old video and watching my progressive friends get older and start to resist change, it seems more like a natural evolution for many to at some point firm up their beliefs and take aim at those who keep changing.