What Does a Civilization That’s Beginning to Collapse Look Like? This, Here, Now
“You don’t seriously think…civilization…is going to…collapse? Do you? LOL! Dude!! Here, have a beer!” It’s a question I get asked these days, sometimes angrily, sometimes mockingly, sometimes like I’m crazy — rarely seriously. My answer — said as gently as I can — tends to go something like this.
What exactly do you imagine “civilizational collapse” is? This strange, sci-fi term you might be hearing more and more, by overly concerned and earnest people like…well…me? Maybe you think, having watched too many Hollywood movies, and enjoyed them, like me, that it’s 2012 meets the Purge by way of Noah. Hold on — but isn’t reality far outpacing fiction these days?
What does a “civilizational collapse” look like? It looks like this. Here and now. It’s staring you right in the face. What a civilizational collapse looks like is beginning to happen already. America, China, India, Australia, Britain — it’s happening everywhere, in every way, too, economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological. Life as you and I think of it will never go back to anything that we still wrongly consider “normal.” And yet most of us go on as if…it will.
The last couple of years. That’s civilizational collapse. At least the beginnings of it. A global pandemic made worse by our nationalism, selfishness, and incompetence. A fascist political movement in America that shows no signs of slowing down. A working class that seems to be rejecting democracy, almost worldwide. China with a million — or maybe three, who really knows? — in concentration camps. Billionaires getting richer during a pandemic — who could easily pay to vaccinate the world, but don’t lift a finger. Need I go on? …
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