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The Anxiety Economy
The Anxiety Economy We’re told to stop being so darn negative even as the tsunami of inequality washes away the beach chairs of the bottom 90%. The disconnect between the happy story of the economy is growing healthily, so all is well and the insecurity and stagnation experienced by the bottom 90% of wage earners has been […]
Living with/in Fear
Living with/in Fear There are more like you than you think. Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor / Unsplash “I think 3C is being hopeful and conservative.” – Ruth Cerezo-Mota an expert in climate modelling at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Sign up for Collapse 2050 The unspoken truth about humanity’s frightening future. Subscribe No […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII June 11, 2022 (original posting date) Santorini, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance This contemplation is the fourth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Activities Which Can Help Us Deal With Climate Anxiety
Activities Which Can Help Us Deal With Climate Anxiety Lake Powhatan Swimming Beach, Asheville, North Carolina Recently, it has been brought to my attention that I’m getting older. [Well, big DUH there – as if any of us is getting younger!] One of the things that growing older often brings is more wisdom. Human beings […]
How we can avert our society’s drift toward disaster by charting a different course
How we can avert our society’s drift toward disaster by charting a different course In 2015, I began experiencing the world in a different, less enjoyable way. It started with occasional bouts of nervousness that I didn’t recognize as anxiety — because I’d never experienced clinical anxiety before. In fact, 2015 was preceded by the […]
The “Stock Market Crash Of 2018” Is Rapidly Transforming Into “The Financial Crisis Of 2019”
The “Stock Market Crash Of 2018” Is Rapidly Transforming Into “The Financial Crisis Of 2019” Stock markets are crashing all over the world, we are seeing extremely violent “flash crashes” in the forex marketplace, economic conditions are slowing down all over the globe, and fear is causing many investors to become extremely trigger happy. The […]
2018 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since The Financial Crisis Of 2008
2018 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since The Financial Crisis Of 2008Now that the year is finally over, we can officially say that 2018 was the worst year for stocks in an entire decade. Not since the last financial crisis have we had a year like this, and many believe that 2019 […]
This Is Exactly The Kind Of Behavior That You Would Expect During A Stock Market Implosion…
This Is Exactly The Kind Of Behavior That You Would Expect During A Stock Market Implosion… If a doctor tells you that his patient’s condition is swinging up and down wildly, is that a good sign or a bad sign? Of course the answer to that question is quite obvious. And if a doctor tells […]
U.S. Stocks Just Had Their Best Day Ever – And Here Is Why That Is A REALLY Bad Sign…
U.S. Stocks Just Had Their Best Day Ever – And Here Is Why That Is A REALLY Bad Sign… The Dow Jones Industrial Average just posted its biggest single day point gain ever. On Wednesday, the Dow shot up 1,086 points, which shattered the old record by a staggering 150 points. It truly was a […]
This Was The Worst Week For The Stock Market Since The Financial Crisis Of 2008
This Was The Worst Week For The Stock Market Since The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, they did. During normal times, a Friday before Christmas is an extremely boring trading session, but these are not normal times. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down […]
Worst Market Crash In A Decade: The Dow Has Fallen More Than 4000 Points As Stocks Rapidly Approach “The Capitulation Phase”
Worst Market Crash In A Decade: The Dow Has Fallen More Than 4000 Points As Stocks Rapidly Approach “The Capitulation Phase” We have not seen anything like this since the financial crisis of 2008. On Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost another 464 points, and over the last five trading sessions it has lost […]
“Something Is Wrong Here”: U.S. Stocks Plunge Again And Are Having Their Worst Quarter In 7 Years
“Something Is Wrong Here”: U.S. Stocks Plunge Again And Are Having Their Worst Quarter In 7 Years The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted another 496 points on Friday as panicked investors continue to pull billions of dollars out of the stock market. With less than two weeks to go until Christmas, the markets are not […]
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety “You cannot have a healthy society that is scared.” A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD IS SEEN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A HOUSE AS HE WADES THROUGH FLOOD WATERS FOR A WELLNESS CHECK ON CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THEIR HOME IN THE AFTERMATH OF […]
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique […]
How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission
How Establishment Propaganda Gaslights Us Into Submission “Gaslighting” can be an effective tactic to instill confusion and anxiety in people, causing them to doubt their own logical abilities, but it can be countered by remaining confident in our judgments, argues Caitlin Johnstone. Poster for the 1944 movie “Gaslight” The dynamics of the establishment Syria narrative […]
