... dystopian "Leaving Las Vegas" meets "Madagascar" American society started then.
Talk about falling into a rabbit hole...
America went through massive growing pains then: turmoil, upset, and mayhem reigned everywhere and Eric marched along in tandem (hut one, hut two, hut), as "Traditional" Society morphed into the different, and the "Different" morphed into the modern, and the "Modern" marched on into the NOW!
But this is the story of before, the present is a long way off, though it's oncoming like a freight train