{"id":60747,"date":"2021-12-02T19:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60747"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:51:41","slug":"are-you-ready-for-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60747","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready for Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are You Ready for Collapse?<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT analyzed it and KPMG updated it: economic collapse is nigh.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"Economy,<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Skorzewiak \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2019, Pierre Charbonnier penned an article<\/a>\u00a0for the French journal Revue du Crieur on the emerging trend known as collapsology. \u201cTheories about the imminent collapse of industrial civilization are in vogue,\u201d he writes in an article titled, \u201cThe Splendor and Squalor of Collapsology.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A year before COVID-19 changed humanity\u2019s view of the world and of its future, Charbonnier attempted to assess the merits of collapsology theory, focusing on the motivation of its promoters. He accurately identifies the marketplace for an increasingly popular genre of literary production, pointing out that \u201cfear is an eminently political emotion, and the production of doomsday scenarios activates our belief systems, our attitudes toward the future, and our sense of good and evil on a very deep level.\u201d These are clearly recipes for producing best-sellers.<\/p>\n

In other words, it makes good business sense to predict catastrophic global collapse. Charbonnier accuses collapsologists of hoping to \u201creinstate\u201d the \u201cfervor and submission\u201d associated with \u201cmillinarianist warnings\u201d from the historical past. He calls the contributors a \u201ccommunity of believers,\u201d but nevertheless distinguishes these fanatics from serious anthropologists such as Jared Diamond or philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, reasonable and reasoning thinkers who describe in scientific terms the process through which civilizations decline.Clearly, Charbonnier doesn\u2019t believe a collapse is imminent, which doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that he adheres to Steven Pinker\u2019s style of optimism. Charbonnier wrote his article in 2019, offering it as his contribution to a debate that had come to life in French intellectual circles at that time. Following a never-ending pandemic, would he make the same judgment today?<\/p>\n

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Are You Ready for Collapse? MIT analyzed it and KPMG updated it: economic collapse is nigh. \u00a9 Skorzewiak \/ Shutterstock In 2019, Pierre Charbonnier penned an article\u00a0for the French journal Revue du Crieur on the emerging trend known as collapsology. \u201cTheories about the imminent collapse of industrial civilization are in vogue,\u201d he writes in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,32242,18954,5679,32243],"class_list":["post-60747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-collapse","tag-fair-observer","tag-kpmg","tag-mit","tag-peter-isackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60749,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60747\/revisions\/60749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}