(Don’t worry, this is not a poem. This is an unordered list)

religion
technology
worklife
labor unions
family
sex
travel
disease
medicine
dispersion
population
economics
environment
magazines
movies
television
internet
computer game
pornography
accidents
war
nuke
democracy
equality
music (ragtime, jazz, rock, hiphop)
information
science
automobile
decolonization
ideology
women’s lib
civil rights movement
conservativism
communism
fascism
plastics
antibiotics
contraceptives
hallucinogens
cocaine
tobacco
alcohol

The list is not intentionally associational. Association merely provided the algorithm for pushing new items onto the list. Listed are (some of)the major “disruptions” that have colored modern life. Since

nihilism
irony
self-consciousness
sociology
materialism

also belong on the list, it should be noted that disruptions are not negative. Disruption is what has the ant colony in a frenzy.