I got several sentences in before I realised you weren't talking about England! How is this happening to all of us all over the western world at the same time? Literally, we are all feeling the same about our own countries. Same about the music too! My millennial and gen z children listen to mostly old stuff. The radio station I listen to doesn't play anything past the year 1999 and it's strapline is:"the most listened to independent radio station in the UK" - so we're all living in a time warp. I'm listening to the same Boston, David Bowie, Doobie Brothers stuff you're listening to 6000 miles away. We are all having the same thoughts: " any love or devotion that I still feel for the country are for as it once was, not for how it is now, and certainly not for how it will soon become. It feels like I’m giving up on a brother with an addiction, or quitting a job that I’ve held for most of my life, or getting a divorce." SNAP! Apart from my children, my family - parents, brother, aunts, uncles, cousins are all dead. The world they inhabited and I used to think was permanent seems to have vanished with them when I wasn't looking. It's all so effing weird.