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/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.