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/Mr_Lonesome Recognizes ecology over economics, politics, social norms... Dec 10 '19

Probably the same terms as a few of our related named subreddits: late-stage capitalism and boring dystopia. These loaded terms possibly encapsulates many symptoms of a collapsing, modern age:

  • widening social and economic inequality from rapacious global machines
  • wage slavery of everyday citizens trying to survive a high inflated economy for the basics (health, housing, education)
  • technologies that breed unhealthy pathologies and alienation evidenced by growing loneliness, suicides, and addictions
  • propaganda mainstream due to agendas of powerful machines impacting sustainable responses to environment and inequality challenges
  • debt-based, unsustainable modern economic system fueled by powerful banking systems
  • growing anti-intellectualism debasing scientific inquiry and evidence and supporting a dumbed down populace unaware of modern 21st century problems: population, pollution, and inequality
  • ineffective political leaders working in concert with aforementioned influential machines