The devastation we experienced when reality hit the OakDragon camps, for three years from 1988, threw people back on themselves - it was heartbreaking to some. In situations such as this one realises that no dream at all is far better than a failed dream. Gorbacheved' out of the OakDragon, and hid in an attic to 'process my stuff'. The movement seemed doomed to miss its purpose. The flip-side of doing our own thing is loneliness, the quiet despair arising from broken relationships and betrayed trysts in profusion.
People eventually grow tired of isolation.
Like the Community of Europe, nations tired of battling, tired of having the same cornflakes packaged in dishonestly different packaging. Without this, any society is lost. They omit to make an effort to reinforce the circle, wandering off on their own paths. In its time of crisis, the circle thus breaks, and once broken, it cannot be revived. Humanity was thus divided and ruled.