Nihilism emerges when people discover that experts have no idea what they're talking about; the analogy is that church attendance collapses when villagers discover the village priest is sleeping with the nuns—once authority is exposed as corrupt or incompetent, cultural norms and behaviors deteriorate.
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“nothing good falls apart faster than a village in which it's discovered that the village priest is sleeping with all the nuns. Um you know, church attendance falls very rapidly, um cultural norms and behaviors uh begin to deteriorate as people say, 'Well, if the man of God is willing to do this, why can't I do it?'”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:11:43 PM
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