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Pronunciation: [ɐnˈɒmi] (IPA)

Anomie is defined as a state of societal or personal unrest or instability. It's a condition of detaching oneself from social norms and values that guide social behavior. Synonyms for anomie can broadly be classified into three categories; emotional, relational, and societal. Emotional synonyms include feelings such as apathy, disorientation, and disaffection. Relational synonyms include terms such as alienation, estrangement, and detachment. Societal synonyms include disarray, lawlessness, and chaos. All these synonyms refer to a condition where individuals are unable to connect with their surroundings, feel a sense of disillusionment, and are struggling to find their place in society.

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  • Prophecy is a critical response to the "urban revolution," that irreversible commitment of the human race to the city and civilization which spread outward from the "Nile to Oxus" heartland beginning around 3000 B.C. Prophecy is the perception of the potentialities, both for "good" and for "evil," inherent in the new social structure. The urban complex makes a process of world unification in one sense—commercial, technological—inevitable, and makes world unification in another sense—the peaceable Kingdom—ever more problematical. The whole prophetic tradition is an attempt to give direction to the social structure precipitated by the urban revolution; to resolve its inherent contradictions; to put an end to the injustice, inequality, anomie, the state of war ... that has been its history from start to finish.
    Norman O. Brown

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