It just helps me to feel less crazy to know that there are some other people who are not in denial about the situation in which we find ourselves. I'm glad to be here with you.
I like your work Jordan precisely because you SERIOUSLY ask the question "can you be happy amidst collapse?" It's an important question and I have been intrigued by your thoughts on the subject.
You asked me what "value" there is in being "collapse aware" when you can do nothing to change the outcome and foreknowledge feels like a burden or curse. It seems like a self inflicted form of exquisite cruelty that has no point.
In this case knowledge is not power and ignorance is a form of bliss.
I don't know that foreknowledge is a "gift" I am passing onto my readers or if it's a "burden". What it is, is INFORMATION. Information that allows those of us who are "Collapse Aware" to come to terms with what's happening in our world. Information that allows us to consider our response to living in a dying civilization and to decide how we want to use the last "good years" before the DESCENT begins in earnest. It gives you an opportunity to "put your affairs in order" on both the material and emotional levels.
As depressing as foreknowledge can be, that's a privilege.
Your statement,
"Now that I’m done hemming-and-hawing over “are we really going to drive ourselves right off the cliff?” it’s been a game of “ok, how do I just handle the fact we’re driving off a cliff?”."
Reflects that. Even if you have only been able to come up with.
"I’m still settled on “think about it when we’re at the bottom of the cliff”. That seems to be what everyone else is doing."
You cannot control the world. BUT, you can control your response to what the world is and is becoming. You can be a "light in the darkness" for those around you or you can be part of the darkness.
"eventually I and everyone I love is going to die"
Has ALWAYS been true.
I would reply, "it's not about the AMOUNT of time you get, it's about what you DO with that time".
Agreed, you've really hit at the core of what my writing is about. A particular emphasis on the "living" part of living through collapse.
Read your recent piece. Incredible how absolutely fucked we are and how unaware the vast vast majority of the population is on a cerebral level...but you can tell how humanity acts as a group that there's some sort of animalistic recognition we're on the other side of population overshoot.
It just helps me to feel less crazy to know that there are some other people who are not in denial about the situation in which we find ourselves. I'm glad to be here with you.
I like your work Jordan precisely because you SERIOUSLY ask the question "can you be happy amidst collapse?" It's an important question and I have been intrigued by your thoughts on the subject.
You asked me what "value" there is in being "collapse aware" when you can do nothing to change the outcome and foreknowledge feels like a burden or curse. It seems like a self inflicted form of exquisite cruelty that has no point.
In this case knowledge is not power and ignorance is a form of bliss.
I don't know that foreknowledge is a "gift" I am passing onto my readers or if it's a "burden". What it is, is INFORMATION. Information that allows those of us who are "Collapse Aware" to come to terms with what's happening in our world. Information that allows us to consider our response to living in a dying civilization and to decide how we want to use the last "good years" before the DESCENT begins in earnest. It gives you an opportunity to "put your affairs in order" on both the material and emotional levels.
As depressing as foreknowledge can be, that's a privilege.
Your statement,
"Now that I’m done hemming-and-hawing over “are we really going to drive ourselves right off the cliff?” it’s been a game of “ok, how do I just handle the fact we’re driving off a cliff?”."
Reflects that. Even if you have only been able to come up with.
"I’m still settled on “think about it when we’re at the bottom of the cliff”. That seems to be what everyone else is doing."
You cannot control the world. BUT, you can control your response to what the world is and is becoming. You can be a "light in the darkness" for those around you or you can be part of the darkness.
"eventually I and everyone I love is going to die"
Has ALWAYS been true.
I would reply, "it's not about the AMOUNT of time you get, it's about what you DO with that time".
Agreed, you've really hit at the core of what my writing is about. A particular emphasis on the "living" part of living through collapse.
Read your recent piece. Incredible how absolutely fucked we are and how unaware the vast vast majority of the population is on a cerebral level...but you can tell how humanity acts as a group that there's some sort of animalistic recognition we're on the other side of population overshoot.
I love your new article!! Thank you for taking the time to express what a lot of us feel right now!!