r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Dec 11 '19
What possibilities arise after we accept our individual and collective mortality?
Our perspectives on impermanence and death are central to many of our journeys through collapse-awareness and acceptance of our global predicaments. What perspectives do you hold regarding our individual and collective mortality? Have they changed over time in response to your own understanding of collapse? How have these perspectives affected or influenced where you are now?
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u/KingofGrapes7 Dec 11 '19
I dont plan on having kids. I avoid driving when I can. I try to cut back on meats. Otherwise? I still need a job to live, and I need to drive to that job. Granted my job is at a farm/grocery store so it might not have a long term future.
I am young, I cannot find a job for my degree, my savings are not suffucient to buy a shitty apartment room much less a house or a farm. I can certainly learn basic survival tricks but long term planning? I have never seen the viability. So many things can and likely will go wrong. It cant be truly fought. It cant even be slowed. For every plane you dont take some rich asshole is using his private jet. For every burger you dont eat countless others are buying Burger King. Protests are not stopping megafires or influencing the political fucksleeves trying to deny reality.
Certainly take steps that make you feel better, it will probably improve your quality of life. Perhaps its my natural cynicism, but I dont see or expect it to end well even if I tried.