Maybe the world has, from the western luxury-chasing society's view point, already started to end and we're just stretching it out.
Maybe the clearest turning point, that will be seen as the cluster of events that started the big change, is this year.
Maybe shit will really start to go down in the coming years, as most seem to expect.
Maybe more than one of those are true.
It probably doesn't matter. Either way I'm starting to think that it's interesting how different people react to the very slow realisation that this society's midlife crisis is real and here.