That feeling of rootlessness and discontent, of society coming unstuck — the academic term is anomie — definitely isn’t unique to this country, but it gets massively amplified by our national narcissism and our physical isolation.

A Botox injection resolved their problems by giving them the ability to burp, or, to use an academic term, eructate.

For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.

This has been fluid as the organizations have come and gone, the elites change, and the academic terms come in and out of fashion.

The school rules, like virtually all “postvention” guidelines for addressing suicide deaths, are particularly concerned with suicide contagion, an academic term for the way suicide reproduces in social groups.