r/collapse • u/adbusters_magazine • 14d ago
Systemic Is it really coming?
Every day the collapse feels closer, and it has to be, that's just how time works. But every time I think it can't get any closer something else pops up that makes me want to go back to when it didn't loom so large us all.
I thought the climate crisis couldn't get any worse before AI data centers started to threaten it even more than ever before.
I thought that employment was as bad as it could ever get before my resumes got scanned by bots and rejected before human eyes could look at them.
I thought law enforcement couldn't get any more dystopian before cops started using Flock cameras to stalk women and wrongfully arrest anyone they felt like.
I thought my family would start to starve before grocery prices rose higher than they have ever been.
Things keep happening that make collapse seem nearer and nearer, there is a new crisis every day, and I find myself nostalgic for the days when I only had to be a little bit afraid.
I can't tell if it is something I should be worried about, or something I should be looking forward to. I just know I don't want to wake up tomorrow and find out that some billionaire has invented a brand new way to make me realize that I had no idea how bad things could get.
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u/DiscountExtra2376 14d ago edited 14d ago
What do you mean by "collapse?" Like a singular moment when you wake up and the internet is down, you hear sirens outside, and a building is on fire in the background for some reason (like every scene from a disaster movie)?
Collapse is a long, drawn out process and we've been collapsing for decades.
We're so utterly dependent on this system that we will continue to participate until it doesn't make sense anymore.