what is happening to everyone?

What is happening right now?
Teacher friends describe fights at the school, kids who swear at teachers or the principal, assignments not completed, and an inability to intervene without parents getting upset. Why do these kids think this behaviour is okay? Why won't parents allow teachers to discipline their children?
ER doctor friends describe belligerence, patients drunk or high and not wanting help, just somewhere to stay warm and get a sandwich, leaving whenever they want, showing up again when the homeless shelter kicks them out. What led them to this point?
Stores all have those signs now that "shouting and swearing will not be tolerated." Security guards are everywhere. When did it become okay to shout and swear at people, something I witnessed during the COVID toilet paper fiasco?
A friend's fifteen-year-old daughter put up with parents yelling at her when she refereed a soccer game for eight-year-olds.
What is happening?

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