Why this word is great
DEMODERNIZATION — [Noun] The process or result of reverting from a modern state to a pre-modern condition, often involving the removal of modern elements or amenities. From the English prefix de- (indicating reversal or removal) + modernization (from modernize, meaning to make modern, + -ation, indicating a process or result). Unlike deindustrialization, which charts the specific hollowing-out of factories, or regression, a broad and often clinical slide backward, demodernization implies a systemic, sometimes willful, unmaking of an entire societal compact. It is the library becoming a scriptorium, the highway crumbling back into a dirt track, and the satellite dish repurposed as a rain-collecting bowl—a quiet admission that progress, once assumed to be a ratchet, can also be a retreat.