unmoored

He called the former president “delusional,” “completely unmoored. Unhinged.”

Future shock has left many members of American and global society feeling unmoored and increasingly confused and uncertain about their role in the present.

The point is to keep people unmoored from reality, making them easier to manipulate.

I had felt unmoored in New York.

“A lot of people were rolling around unmoored, finding a reason to believe there was a political or conspiratorial explanation for their inner upheaval and concluding if they could only act on their impulse, they could save the world,” said Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and a former leader of the Students for a Democratic Society whose books include “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage.”