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Detroit is a really good example of degeneracy. I'm being lazy, and don't want to spend the time to type out a lengthy "definition". I feel multi-culturalism is ok to an extent, but as it is in America today, it's destructive. This idea that "diversity unites us" is bullshit. It's a warm and fuzzy notion, but doesn't translate to reality, very well.

"Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and usual" would be a dictionary definition, but yeah, it's an inherently subjective term, as are many.

Words exist primarily to identify specific emotional concepts rooted in common subjective thinking; raw ideas and thoughts that would otherwise be inexpressible between two individuals isolated in their separate internal mental realms. So much like other forms of communication of emotion such as music or art, defining them as anything other than their associated feeling is a difficult and lossy translation.

Or in much much simpler terms, degeneracy just means whatever gives you the feeling of it being degenerate. There is no objective definition of what about something makes it degenerate however, except if you possibly consider popular opinion as admissible I guess.

Also, I should note there's a difference between "degeneracy" and "degeneration," the latter of which is the unfortunate yet inevitable path of any civilization.

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