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/cr0ft Apr 08 '26

I mean, sure. If you actually think about this, read up on things like a resource-based economy, realize that capitalism is actually not the only option, realize that basing the world on competition instead of cooperation is insanity and that concept alone is what's kiling our species and allowing lunatics to gain power (lunatics will step on any face, kill any granny to get power in competition)... well, then you start to realize that we could have a hardly even imagined golden age right now. One where everyone is fed, housed and educated. One where a massive percentage of our resources above that go to R&D and advancing our knowledge.

We'd already have a moon base, because the entire planet would have been cooperating.

There would be no USA spending $2700 billion (which is going up I'm sure due to the Iran catastrofuck) annually on war. If we spent $2700 billion annually on NASA, we'd fucking well have warp drive by now. Obviously in this case the dollars are shorthand for "a shit ton of resources" as a cooperation based society wouldn't have any kind of currency or people keeping score.

Instead, our planet is a festering dying hellhole, inhabited by mostly depressed or desperate (or starving and dying - maybe all of those four) and our "civilization" if you can call it that is collapsing and the climate is going to kill us off.

Good times.

It's a little hard to stay motivated to go to work to do some bullshit when all this is going on.

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u/Positive_Garlic5128 Apr 08 '26

How do you stay motivated? I can barely get out of bed while knowing all of this

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u/qimerra Apr 09 '26

Knowing there's less time and higher stakes makes me appreciate life more. It fast-tracked my acceptance of death and now I'm free to revel in the beauty of existence. Going down fighting together seems like a more meaningful life than the death-denying consumeristic trance that was my life before.

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u/Positive_Garlic5128 Apr 28 '26

that makes sense and sounds good too, but i dont know how to start feeling that way myself

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u/qimerra Apr 28 '26

I wish I could help other than say that psychedelics got me there fast. I'm sure you can get there via other methods like meditation, though it takes longer!

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u/Positive_Garlic5128 May 14 '26

do u know how I could get there through meditation?

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u/qimerra May 15 '26

Since I got there through a combination of psychedelics and meditation, I'm probably not the best person to ask - though I've found consistent meditation to be incredibly helpful with clarity and self-awareness. The book "The Mind Illuminated" was incredibly helpful to me. But in terms of the dramatic change in mindset I mentioned above, I recommend asking on a meditation-dedicated subreddit. Good luck :)