Perhaps the Collapse of Society Would Not Be Such a Bad Thing

The tragedy that is industrial humanity.

Look at what’s happening around the world. Just look, for once.

We love to shield ourselves from the horrors of this world, love to avert our eyes, put a lid on it. With ‘we’ I mean us in the Western world, of course, for most others are faced with such terrors on the daily. We will be, too, soon enough. Don’t worry about it.

How many children died in Palestine in recent weeks? Do you even know? Do you even care? I’m not trying to antagonize you, it’s only natural to grow apathetic. Staring the truth in the face for long enough would crush us all. There’s only so many videos of mutilated children one can bear, and apathy and cognitive dissonance are, after all, the defining features of our society for a reason.

Long ago, we have reached our ecological limits, have overshot the earth’s capacity to regenerate. Our consumption and population surpass what this planet’s biosphere can provide by multitudes. Since then, we’re treading on borrowed time, struggling to keep the house of cards aflo…