{"id":63248,"date":"2022-08-06T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63248"},"modified":"2022-08-06T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:45:47","slug":"collapse-wont-just-reset-society-it-will-destroy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63248","title":{"rendered":"Collapse Won\u2019t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title long unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armageddonprose.substack.com\/p\/collapse-wont-just-reset-society\">Collapse Won\u2019t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The collapse of techno-industrial civilization is likely to occur on the present business-as-usual mode of social functioning, probably by 2030, but there are scenarios where it could be before Christmas 2022, if the West and Russia slide into nuclear war; that is our position, supported here. This article is a response to Adam Van Buskirk\u2019s paper \u201cCollapse Won\u2019t Reset Society\u201d (Van Buskirk, 2022), who argues that collapse does not lead to the\u00a0<em>Mad Max<\/em>\/zombie apocalypse scenario, even in the case of all-out nuclear war. We could not disagree more; hence this response. But the Van Buskirk article is typical of \u201cnormie\u201d responses to the confrontation with civilizational collapse, so it is instructive to critique his article as a sample of a general pattern of thought. Indeed, the senior member of this duo was reminded of the famous record album cover by the English rock group Super Tramp,\u00a0<em>Crisis, What Crisis<\/em>? (1975), featuring a guy laying back relaxing in a deck chair, under an umbrella, with chaos and destruction all around him. He is oblivion to the dark fate that is rushing to engulf him. Most people, including academics and general members of the chattering class, are like that guy in the deck chair.<\/p>\n<p>According to Van Buskirk \u201ccollapse\u201d (a term which will need to be explicated below) and \u201cthe threat of imminent destruction\u201d is a \u201cthrilling possibility\u201d to some people from both progressive and conservative groups, including \u201cbackwoods fundamentalists, deep green radicals, apocalyptic cults, and pessimistic online doomers.\u201d That is indeed true, with \u201ccollapse\u201d being a hot topic on YouTube, discussed daily at sites such as Canadian Prepper, The Angry Prepper, The Prepared Homestead, Ice Age Farmer and The Modern Survivalist (\u201cFerfal\u201d), to name but a few. This selection, by the way, is highly racially diverse, so doomsday is not an exclusive preoccupation of \u201cWhiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapse Won\u2019t Just Reset Society, It Will Destroy It I The collapse of techno-industrial civilization is likely to occur on the present business-as-usual mode of social functioning, probably by 2030, but there are scenarios where it could be before Christmas 2022, if the West and Russia slide into nuclear war; that is our position, supported [&hellip;]<\/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":[7],"tags":[33081,33078,150,33079,33080],"class_list":["post-63248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-armageddon-prose","tag-brittany-smith","tag-collapse","tag-joseph-wayne-smith","tag-society-reset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63248","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=63248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63249,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63248\/revisions\/63249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}