The Frightening Reality of Global Collapse
It’s not just theory anymore.
Angus Peterson
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The Steady Drop
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4 min read
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Oct 31
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It’s no secret that things are not as they should be (if they ever were). Everything seems…off.
- Our income is lower but prices are higher, all the while the rich get richer.
- Politicians can’t govern, but laws are passed (or rather, struck down) restricting our rights.
- The weather is both hotter and colder than our childhood memories.
- The media is a constant scry of bad omens.
- War is seemingly always somewhere.
If these sentiments ring true, then rest assured you are in good company. So many of us see these things happening, and more, but don’t talk about them out of fear of being a Debbie Downer.
But you’re not crazy. And you’re not alone.
What you’ve been feeling is the realization that the world is literally collapsing around us, but no one can prevent it, stop it, or change it even one single iota.
It’s called hypernormalization, and it will be the undoing of humanity.
“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union. What he said, which I thought was absolutely fascinating, was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, knew that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisation” to describe that feeling.I thought “that’s a brilliant title” because, although we are not in any way really like the Soviet Union, there is a similar feeling in our present day. Everyone in my country and in America and throughout Europe knows that the system that they are living under isn’t working as it is supposed to; that there is a lot of corruption at the top. But whenever the journalists point it out, everyone goes “Wow…
