re: #436 freetoken

“I’m not trying to affix blame so much as trying to get my mind around what is really going on”.

You and me both.

“I’m still trying to come up with terms that cover what I mean - “collective anxiety” is one, and I think it arises from the discomfort of people, groups of people, who would rather not be in covenant with each other but find that they are, and don’t know what to do about it”.

It sounds like you mean mutual suspicion of the of the other which begets more “collective anxiety”.