Susan Faludi, the US journalist who foresaw the right's reaction: There's very much a Lord of the Flies' feeling here

""The false sense of happiness evaporated with a quick scroll on her phone. Our adult institutions have been torn apart, and everybody's acting like an adolescent. And there's a feeling like there are no grownups at home. There's very much a Lord of the Flies feeling here," she says, citing the William Golding classic novel. From tech bros to Trump's embarrassing Cabinet press conferences,"

"Faludi achieved global fame that same year and the National Book Critics' Circle Award with her investigation titled Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. I wish I had been wrong, she cautions about her cult classic of progressive thought. The 657-page review of the undeclared war on modern women presented a compelling accumulation of evidence to show that, far from what was being preached in the early 1990s, feminism had not consolidated institutional or social change, but rather had regressed in its objectives."

A temporary sense of wellbeing can evaporate after exposure to news. Adult institutions appear torn apart while widespread adolescent behavior creates a sense that there are no grownups at home. Cultural examples include tech executives, chaotic political press conferences, romanticizing of girlhood, and the aggressive manosphere. People experience insecurity and fear because perceived progress has stalled. A comprehensive investigation titled Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women compiled evidence that feminism did not consolidate institutional or social change in the early 1990s and instead regressed in its objectives.

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