Is anyone else experiencing a certain sense of unreality about what is unfolding globally, presently?
I've been "collapse aware" since about 1996, which was also the year I went vegan. As such, I've always paid attention to small signs of collapse around me. From my perspective, the degradation has really began begun to accelerate recently, be it in terms of the climate and broader environment, or society generally.
Recently everything has felt apocalyptic, quite literally and without hyperbole.
If everything around us isn't burning to a cinder, it's pestilence or war dominating the headlines. And because everyone is so overworked and stressed, which is deliberate, they simply don't have the bandwith to register that this is looking ominously like the end times.
The game feels utterly rigged, especially with regard to elites hoovering up greater and greater shares of the wealth. At what point does the inequality simply become too much for people? Most are already buckling because of a skyrocketing cost of living, not to mention many are carrying significant debt.
Likewise, there are appear no viable political solutions open to regular people. The Right took over what passed for the Left way back in the 1960s, and it's all been neoliberal pantomime since. We've been carefully fed the illusion that we have some choice and actual agency.
It really makes no difference to the average person whether it's the Right or Left boot that's on your neck.
People are so detached this carnage has become all but totally normalised. We're unaware of our predicament, like the frogs in the proverbial pot of boiling water.
And I genuinely understand why people feel apathetic, paralysed and generally numb
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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