This article analyzes the factors affecting the latent social instability. According to the author, the reasons for the spread of spiritual alienation in post-industrial society are mostly latent. The main factor allowing explaining the growth of the level of spiritual alienation nowadays, it is a serious structural crisis of values, which is shown in unrelated at first glance events.
spiritual alienation, social instability, Overton window, «brainwashing techniques», index of alienation
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