Literally, without law, a condition of
disintegration of a society into individual components resulting from the absence of conventions, shared perceptions and goals. A social system describable as a mere
aggregate, the state of maximum
social entropy.
The Brady Bunch befell
anomie when that fat maid left for vacation. When she got back, she had to clean up
Marsha's mung, castrate all the boys and kick out the littest one's boyfriend, and
hide the ugly wife's body. After which she looks at the camera and shrugs to a big audience laugh.
