When Stability Feels Like Suffocation
The psychology of craving societal collapse and embracing the insanity of radical change.
They call it morbid, this quiet confession roiling inside so many of us: the desire to see it all undone.
I speak of the fantasized unraveling of industrial society. Not as calculated cruelty, but as a form of desperate release. Such longing casts you as a villain, of course. It is taboo to wish for collapse, no matter how inevita…
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