The Great Unraveling:

◼ It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? - Roger Cohen/New York Times

It was a time of beheadings....

It was a time of aggression.

It was a time of breakup.

It was a time of weakness...

It was a time of hatred...

It was a time of fever...

It was a time of disorientation...

Until it was too late and people could see the Great Unraveling for what it was and what it had wrought.