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ITT: Why 2011 was the year of the downfall - the end of many longstanding cultural institutions, from TV to sports to political revolution, etc.
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/the-year-in-downfalls-201112#slide=18
After the Arab Spring, when dictatorial regimes in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen were toppled or at least changed forever, it was hard to look at 2011 as anything but the year when things fell apart. For millions of people around the world, life will never be the same. So what other mass institutions crumbled this year?
In 2011, things changed in many ways:
Not be a downer, but 2012 is right down the corner. Is our society falling apart at the seams, slowly but surely, or are things just improving as we progress further in this current millennium? Is all this change inevitable?
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/the-year-in-downfalls-201112#slide=18
After the Arab Spring, when dictatorial regimes in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen were toppled or at least changed forever, it was hard to look at 2011 as anything but the year when things fell apart. For millions of people around the world, life will never be the same. So what other mass institutions crumbled this year?
In 2011, things changed in many ways:
- The "Arab Spring"
- The Fall of the Murdoch dynasty
- Fukushima Disaster in Japan, natural disasters all over the world
- Famous marriages ended- Kardashian, McCourt, Lopez, Moore
- End of the Oprah Winfrey Show after 25 years
- Disgraced Politicians - Anthony Weiner
- The fall of Penn State
- CERN 'disproves' a century of Physics
- The Royal wedding
- End of DADT
- Credit downgrades hit the US & Europe
- World Population hit 7 Billion
- Final Space Shuttle Liftoff
- 10 year anniversary of 9/11
- Death of Osama Bin Laden & Kim Jong Il
- The end of the 9 Year long Iraq war
- The death of many famous people - Elisabeth Taylor, Steve Jobs,
Not be a downer, but 2012 is right down the corner. Is our society falling apart at the seams, slowly but surely, or are things just improving as we progress further in this current millennium? Is all this change inevitable?
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