Quote from: TDoS on Dec 21, 2023, 04:46 PM

Quote from: RE on Dec 21, 2023, 02:28 PMI'm definitely not up to cruising around other collapse websites anymore, if any exist that are even worthwhile to spend time on.
RE

The collapse of collapse websites and personalities...as the world truddles on without...

That's a fabulous Irony graphic. ;D

The Collapse of Collapse Personalities is an interesting outcome to ponder on.  It would be interesting to plot it out on a timeline.

While the realization we were bound to hit a wall with population and per capita energy consumption can be traced back at least to the Limits to Growth study in the 70s, followed in the 90s by Richard Duncan's Olduvai hypothesis, it wasn't until Peak Oil as a concept became a subject of bloggers and on forums after the turn of the millenium there was an emergence of people who gained enough attention to become "Personalities" associated with Collapse.  Our old friends (sic) like Orlov, Greer and Kunstler wrote their books and LATOC and Peak Oil forums popped up.  Then we had the collapse of Lehman and the Financial Crisis which is when economists like yours truly jumped on the bandwagon.  I would put Peak Personalities coming sometime between 2008 and 2016, after which time things began to taper off.

Why?  It's not like things have improved, we had the Covid crisis, continuing refugee and migration crises in Europe and on the FSoA southern border and Greta Thunberg emerging as the Swedish Joan of Arc leading the Climate CO₂ army into battle at the various global conferences which get only slightly more interest than my blogs did. lol.

I don't attribute it to Denial anymore, now I think it's more Acceptance & Resignation in the population at large.  When I talk to people like the traveling nurses who come here for a few months for a nice paycheck.  They seem aware that we are heading for collapse but not real interested in why, they just accept it and figure they'll go on living as they do until it hits them.  Since I can't give them an exact date for when the lights won't go on or they won't be able to get gas for the car, I'm not of much help there.  I also can't do much to help them survive collapse either, because all the choices have negative consequences beyond stocking up some preps and having some cash, which most people in Alaska do anyway.

You watch the newz or read the net, see refugees stacked at the border and say, "gee, I'm glad I'm not one of them."  Or homeless living in tents next to the mall and say, "gee, I'm glad I'm not one of them."  Or Palestinians in some bombed out district of Gaza and say, "gee, I'm glad I'm not one of them."  What can you do about any of this shit other than be glad it's not you?   Yet.  Do you want to read my explanations of why this is happening?  No, not really.  Even though it probably would be helpful because it's supposed to make you think about what you will do if/when one of these crappy outcomes shows up at a theater near you.

I'll tell one thing I would NOT do if I was homeless in NYC right now.  I wouldn't stay there waiting for a bed.  I'd take one of the free plane tickets to Miami and be homeless there instead.  At least I won't freeze to death in Miami.

So essentially the reason Collapse Personalities have Collapsed is there's not very much we pundits can tell people that they can find useful right now.  Far as the bad stuff that might happen to them in the future, you just deal with it when it comes, like any disaster.  Regular blackouts start, more people will have generators, like Puerto Rico.  Gas gets rationed, the will be more carpooling, more electric bikes and scooters.  Trump gets elected, you'll  live with an even more corrupt and useless goobermint than you currently have, which is hard to imagine I know.

I don't think anyone but billionaires is really worried about depopulation, even though the economic consequences are only a few years away.  The FSoA can fudge it for a while with immigration.  SS will be a monster problem in 10 years for sure.  So if a big crash doesn't come before that, we'll get it then.

I'd like to see some kind of movement evolve, which they always do when civilizations collapse.  It could be religious or political or philosophical, who knows?  So far nothing jumps out at me as worthwhile, with anyone charismatic enough to have a million friends on Facebook or whatever the number is worthy of attention.  Livy Dunne has a million, but that's just because she looks great doing splits in a bikini, not because she has anything worthwhile to say.  lol.  I used to think I had worthwhile things to say, but they no longer seem that worthwhile because I'm not charismatic and I don't look great in a bikini either.  If only a few people listen, you don't get a movement.  So why bother saying it at all?

RE