Societal Breakdown & Self Sufficiency: Let the Collapse Start with Me

Do you have an inner voice that is also a doomsday prophet? Should you be listening to it? Have the supply-chain crisis, the runs on toilet paper, the increasing price of gas and meat made you anxious about how dependent you are on the functioning of a highly complex and, perhaps, highly fragile civilization?

If you think this whole sucker of a civilization is going down the drain, you are not alone, my friend. There are over 400,000 members of the subreddit r/collapse who think their nameless sense of dread stands up to reason. They helpfully explain precisely what they mean by collapse: “Defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” Lots of people are going to die, probably. Or the complex networks that sustain the modern economy will fall apart, and because of that, well, lots of people are going to die.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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Do you have an inner voice that is also a doomsday prophet? Should you be listening to it? Have the supply-chain crisis, the runs on toilet paper, the increasing price of gas and meat made you anxious about how dependent you are on the functioning of a highly complex and, perhaps, highly fragile civilization?

If you think this whole sucker of a civilization is going down the drain, you are not alone, my friend. There are over 400,000 members of the subreddit r/collapse who think their nameless sense of dread stands up to reason. They helpfully explain precisely what they mean by collapse: “Defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” Lots of people are going to die, probably. Or the complex networks that sustain the modern economy will fall apart, and because of that, well, lots of people are going to die.