Thread by @DcrInYYC

Something that I've likely always known but just couldn't allow myself to accept is that we very much are likely living through some form of collapse. I think that we are at the point where governments can no longer respond to crises because the response would cause a crises in

the system that caused the original crisis. It's a feedback loop. It's one that I'm not sure we are actually capable of escaping.

This is happened so many times in history to so many civilizations.

So the real job right now is to try to build a stable life during an actual collapse. I'm not sure it's possible.

I think people that have lived in societies that have collapsed, but managed to escape, will keenly recognize a lot of what we are seeing going on around us right now. The difference this time is I don't know that there's any place to flee to.

I think even the statistics that a lot of governments use to determine if things are healthy or not are probably flawed in themselves. They don't actually reflect the crisis early enough to allow a sensible response. I think they are actually trailing indicators.

Of course things aren't quite bad enough for most people that they are still able to stumble along pretending everything's hunky-dory, but core components of our societal systems are showing super alarming signs of problems.

The kind of problems that people won't realize until they need them.