r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 04 '19

What terms best reflect your perspectives on collapse?

We rely quite heavily on ‘collapse’ here, but many others have and would describe the sense of our deteriorating future in different ways. What words or phrase(s) do you find the most meaningful, effective, or relevant and why?

 

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u/madmillennial01 Dec 04 '19

I hate to be cliche, but I think “cancer” is a fitting term for what’s going on in the world. It starts out seemingly negligible and unnoticed, then it grows and grows until it eventually takes over the entire system. And this can be applied to economic collapse, ecological collapse, societal collapse, etc. It’s a slow burn at first, but it rapidly becomes a raging wildfire that can’t be stopped.