Feel like I'm getting a lot of things done personally, but the world around me is grinding to a halt. The multiple bureaucracies crumbling under their own weight. The system failing to incentivize anymore. The truth subverted for emotional comfort.

I am put on hold when I call, emails get lost or unreturned, deadlines get extended, pushed back indefinitely. A person in cognitive decline can fake it for awhile, but eventually it's obvious they can't look after themselves. A civilization might be similar.