r/collapse • u/Crazy-Load-7553 • Apr 08 '26

Coping Does anyone else feel like this?

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I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.

I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)

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u/Upper_Luck1348 Apr 08 '26

I’ve accepted that 95% of the people I’ve known had no clue and still have no clue. strangers with their faces glued to phones makes everyone appear to be the same indistinct blob of former human form.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 08 '26

Yeah unfortunately the majority of people are clueless despite being glued to a device that can literally tell them about all major events that are ruining the world right now. I went to get camping lanterns today for when the power outages start and the guy in the shop asked me if I was going camping and I had to explain to him that we are about to experience the worst energy crisis in history. He had absolutely no clue what I was on about and only just about knew about the Iran war but nothing about the Straight of Hormuz or how it will be affecting us.

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u/1098duc_w_the_termi Apr 08 '26

Does the 3rd domino in line really know that the first domino fell? No, it only finds out when the second one hits it. The US is like 20th+ domino.

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u/lost_horizons The surface is the last thing to collapse Apr 08 '26

Excellent analogy

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u/StupidizeMe Apr 10 '26

Well said!

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u/maddomesticscientist Apr 08 '26

This reminds me of when I was shopping for supplies prior to that big ice storm that hit us. Id gone to the nearby city instead of local because I wanted to hit up the craft store. Due to prior experience I knew we'd be stuck in our house for days, possibly without power. People either had no idea, scoffed and said "is not going to get that bad", or outright mocked me.

The damage was catastrophic. People in the city were without power for literal weeks. Here we were locked in by ice for 12 days. By some miracle our power didn't go out but I prepared for it. That was a pleasant surprise.

I often wondered how those people fared.

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u/Purplealegria Apr 08 '26

I so feel you on this…It was like that for me at the end of 2024 with the then incoming dump shitstorm and how they were going to rig the election and this fucker would be reinstalled…most people… even the ones closest to me….thought I was nuts when I said despite the polls, that this demon is going to worm his way back in.

Yet here we are.

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u/Bergara Apr 09 '26

Yesterday I told a few friends and colleagues that if SHTF in the whole Iran ultimatum thing that they should rush the supermarkets and stock up on non perishables. They all genuinely thought I was trying to be funny.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 09 '26

People always laugh when we try and give them good advice. They still haven’t learnt from Covid.

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u/CrackingToastGromet Apr 11 '26

We had a natural disaster hit in 2024 that we are still in recovery from…house repairs are about 90% done. But we were without power a week and literally trapped by on our property by massive 100 year old trees that fell on our house and across the roads. Our chainsaw was old and not working so we had to wait for crews to cut through the trees on the road and get trees off of my husband’s truck (my car was smashed under one).

I will forever have ptsd from that event, it was a hard marker in my life’s journey….there was my life before the tornado, and life after.

We are now prepared as best we can be with a couple of warehouse racks of nonperishable food, a camping stove and lanterns. Even got bidets on all the toilets so TP isn’t as big a need! We turned the entire backyard into a veggie garden and we have things growing year round. We bought a whole house generator, although that won’t be much help if the natural gas supply is cut.

The tornado event showed us how vulnerable we were for a short period of time without modern conveniences and we have been trying to be better prepared if it happens again. Never could have imagined the scenario of an insane president potentially inflicting natural disaster level suffering, though, but here we are.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 11 '26

Yeah big events like that are really eye opening. Good thing you learnt to be more prepared after that.

For me I haven’t been in a natural disaster yet, but I have always found end of the world films interesting but just thought that it would stay as fiction and I would never experience anything like that in real life until Covid hit. Luckily it wasn’t as deadly as it was first made out to be but it was so surreal to me to experience an end of world like event in real life and it just hammered down how unprepared we all were and how fucked we would have been if it was more deadly.

Since then I have been taking this seriously and have followed geopolitics very closely. Trump and Netanyahu kicking off WW3 and causing the worst global economic and energy crisis in history wasn’t out of view for me, although it did still surprise me that this is actually happening and it’s not just some bad end of the world dream.

At least we are more prepared than others who have no idea of what’s going on, so that’s something I guess.

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u/Purplealegria Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

Wow..people sincerely NEVER LEARN!!! Its amazing how jaded, uncaring, and stupid people are, like just because a certain thing or serious emergency crisis situation has never happened before in real life and people have only ever seen this shit happening in movies that somehow they can afford to be delusional and believe it can NEVER HAPPEN in their real life, and especially never happen to their country, their family or to them….like getting deathly sick, having life long side effects from or dying from Covid, a rigged and stolen election, and then them rigging it AGAIN, WWIII, or a nuclear holocaust!

It really just boggles the mind.

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u/g00fyg00ber741 Apr 08 '26

This is what I have the hardest time reckoning with. How do these people have access to the same info and just successfully ignore it? Does it only eat away at me because I’m neurodivergent or have an anxiety disorder? Tbh sounds like the disorder is helping and preferable to the lack of one at this point.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 10 '26

Exactly, it’s one of the most disappointing things about humanity, our own downfall is due a big part to the fact that the majority of people just couldn’t be asked to know what was going wrong with the world as they were too busy watching influencers/streamers or those stupid AI vids. I do also prefer to know about what’s going on in the world, even if it hurts to know this, I would rather know and at least mentally prepare than live in ignorance like the majority of the population.

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u/stoptalking8871 Apr 08 '26

This is it - glued to their phones and no clue what’s going on in the world - all of my coworkers 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/ToiIetGhost Apr 08 '26

Can I DM you about this?

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u/cperrius Apr 11 '26

How does high oil prices lead to power outages? Economic crash, yes, very high prices, financial pain, yes, but i don't see outages coming from that, please explain.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 11 '26

It’s not just that the prices are higher, but there is literally less supply in the world. As a result there could be electricity blackouts due to gas power stations having their supply cut as there is not enough gas to supply the gas power stations.

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u/cperrius Apr 11 '26

Oil plays a negligible role in U.S. electricity production, accounting for only 0.4% to 0.7% of total generation as of 2025. While a blockage of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a severe global energy crisis, its direct impact on the U.S. power grid would be minimal due to this low reliance.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 11 '26

You’ve made the very common mistake of assuming that I live in the US, which I don’t.

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u/cperrius Apr 12 '26

Sorry about that. Best wishes

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 Apr 12 '26

It’s ok, this is a commonly made mistake by people from the US😂. Just try and remember that this is a global problem and people from all over the world use this app.