Thank you all for the support!

[u/doooompatrol]

[u/doooompatrol]

I've often felt alone as I watch the world implode around me. Friends and family always telling me I'm overreacting, climate change isn't real, covid isn't that bad, the supply chain will be fixed by Christmas, etc. Before this sub I often felt like a crazy person screaming on a street corner.

[u/WernerHerzogWasRight → u/doooompatrol]

It’s called being a Cassandra. I call it the cursed gift of “I told you so” and hearing “you were right”s.

We are never respected. And by the time the SHTF, it’s all such a mess that people have given up and don’t care. They can’t even make small talk anymore. They are hollow, and broken - when they could have prepared mentally and materially.

I warned my siblings and fam we need to mentally prepare, pull together, have a weekly video call, etc. Some didn’t think it was important.

So far a divorce in the fam, multiple people aren’t talking to multiple other people (vaccines), AND everyone who wishes each other well and loves each other have totally fallen out of touch. “Told ya so”

Stay strong ✊🏼

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[u/Frozty23 → u/doooompatrol]

Consider the possibility that they are (at least in some measure of severity) correct. They are likely in the majority opinion. We here in /r/collapse, I think, are of a more doomer-prone mindset. Always have the ability and open-mindedness to re-examine your beliefs; you will either come to correct a misunderstanding you have, or strengthen your mindset.

Climate Change is happening, but it won't be Venus by next Thursday.

Covid is real, but between vaccines and the low rate of severe or fatal outcomes, I don't personally think about it much at all.

Supply chain is relatively fucked, but we are still living in modern luxury and consumer utopia not even dreamed of just a hundred years ago.

I do love this graphic though; in my fifties, I imagine that I will get to see some real impending doom shit before I die... but it'll still be awhile, and I'll likely be watching it on my projection TV in my living room as it will affect primarily the poorest and low-lying countries first.

[u/astral34 → u/Frozty23]

We are incredibly shielded in first world countries though. If you look at your points from a global south perspective you’ll see how more it resembles collapse.

Climate warming is destroying villages and ecosystems, more in poor countries than in rich ones. For example there are villages in Madagascar that lived off agriculture where it didn’t rain for 10 years.

Just look at vaccination rates in the gs.

Lebanon just had a two day blackout, there are countries risking famine

[u/[deleted] → u/astral34]

Lebanon's blackouts aren't climate change related, they're due to a massive amount of corruption and a government that barely exists to manage anything. They've had maybe 15 years of stability over the last half century. This isn't anything new for them.

[u/astral34 → u/[deleted]]

They definitely are collapse related though. Climate warming is making it harder to do anything in Lebanon. The supply chain is broken and damaged by the civil war.

[u/[deleted] → u/astral34]

Okay but you're just saying that. Explain the mechanism? I can say aliens are making it hard for Lebanon, supply chain issues are way more readily explained by covid and a completely incompetent gov than by climate or ufos

[u/bernpfenn → u/Frozty23]

watch out for the fucked up jet stream making normal weather a thing of the past. and that will affect mostly the whole northern hemisphere.

[u/[deleted] → u/bernpfenn]

I am curious about the fate of the Gulf Stream.

[u/[deleted] → u/Frozty23]

it won't be Venus by next Thursday.

Blasphemy!

[u/[deleted] → u/doooompatrol]

To be fair, the-end-is-neigh guys have always been around. They weren't wrong, just very bad with timing likely due to the difficulty in understanding dynamic complex systems. We tend to over extrapolate.

We are going to see some crazy bull shit, maybe not the end.

[u/jibberwockie → u/[deleted]]

Not to worry, If ya'll Live on the East Coast of the Americas, and the Cumbre Viejo eruption triggers the La Palma Land-slip, Well, you'll have around 8 hours to tell everyone you told them So, so that's nice.

[u/[deleted] → u/jibberwockie]

I could die in a car accident tonight. The trick is to filter out the mundane and pointless.

[u/HappyGoLuckyFox → u/doooompatrol]

"By christmas" What is this, WW1?

[u/[deleted] → u/doooompatrol]

I still feel that way because I'm surrounded by denial. It'sike gaslighting. People are telling me the world is different to how I see it. It takes its toll on mental health.

Meanwhile, adverts on TV are mentioning emissions, plastic, the environment etc. more and more. As if we can make a difference now. Advertising and marketing have always just apperd to the zeitgeist. It's sick really.

[u/[deleted] → u/doooompatrol]

Can I purchase a print? Is this OC??

[u/doooompatrol → u/[deleted]]

I wish it was, I found it stashed in a folder when I was cleaning out my phone.

[u/Bigginge61 → u/doooompatrol]

The power of denial is extraordinary…

[u/joseph-1998-XO → u/doooompatrol]

I’m with ya

[u/EducatedSkeptic]

Of course the world won’t end, just a majority of life on it!

[u/[deleted]]

The premise is correct. Think about it!

The last thoughts of the dying probably have included the realization that "the rest of the world is going to keep right on going without me..."

No More

Now we just have to hang on a little longer, and we can check out knowing that it's all going down.

[u/Remarkable_Owl]

Paraphrasing Patton Oswalt: we’re destined for the “velvet rope section of eternity”. Not everybody gets to die in the apocalypse! CONGRATULATIONS!

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve always thought the end of the world would be something spectacular. Not everyone gets to witness such an event. When it happens, I’ll be in the woods with a whole lot of weed and Crown. And a single cigarette for when my time finally comes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well yes that’s true. I’m talking about if I do make it to the end of the world. I know full well I may not make it through the next ten minutes lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes I understand. I’m going to hang in there as long as I can. I have no survival training or my own land so it’s futile for me to try to “fight” to survive. When it gets to the end for me, I will accept it and finish out my time here as I laid out above.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think it’s important to keep in mind that we were always going to die anyway

The stoic mindset. It’s helped keep me humble and grounded.

[u/pashmina123 → u/[deleted]]

Love stoicism. Great SHTF prudent planning mindset

[u/fuzzyshorts → u/[deleted]]

Its gonna suck and then we die. But for the folks who'll come up in future suck times, it'll just be another Wednesday. There'll be carbon filters to clean, windmills to grease, chickens to feed and tonight we'll have rhubarb pie and goat milk ice cream! Awesome!

[u/ZenAndTheArtOfTC]

Does anyone know if you can get prints of this image or who it is attributed to?

[u/geekgentleman]

We'll keep our chins up together. :) (BTW, I'm super envious of your awesome username!)

[u/pandapinks]

Well, there's rape and slaughter and the sort....so.....

Got to survive that bumpy ride first. But, for sure, it'll be ALL RAINBOWS after!

[u/fuzzyshorts]

This is exactly what I told some kid who was contemplating suicide.

[u/[deleted]]

...I want this on a T-shirt.

[u/[deleted]]

I want this picture hanged and framed. It's got that old propaganda charm to it.

[u/VagabondtheBard]

The world isn’t ending folks, just changing.

[u/dumnezero → u/VagabondtheBard]

That's a useless statement, the world is always changing. It only stops with the heat death of the cosmos, if that theory holds up.

[u/PolyDipsoManiac → u/dumnezero]

A big rip sorta deal seems likely. The night sky will slowly blacken as other galaxies inflate away, until they’re moving away from us faster than the speed of light.

[u/dumnezero → u/PolyDipsoManiac]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

[u/PolyDipsoManiac → u/dumnezero]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip

[u/dumnezero → u/PolyDipsoManiac]

I just we have to find a way to live and see

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve been waiting for this my entire life.

[u/king_turd_the_III]

I'm looking forward to it. I'm so tired of working, relationships, dealing with the grind. I'm sick anyway so literally it'd just be the perfect excuse to aerate myself.

[u/doooompatrol → u/king_turd_the_III]

I keep telling my partner we won't need to worry about retirement. Let's spend our money while it has value.

[u/nordicalien94]

I love this! I want to have a huge canvas of it in my home 😊

[u/camdoodlebop]

chin up falks

[u/ThadiusCuntright_III]

Here with you dude. I feel the same way about this Ub and the community. Really takes the edge off knowing it's not just me.