With climate change, COVID, and war no longer on the horizon but at our front doors do you all also feel like you're living through the start of the end? I'm immunocompromised I can't go out even in small social circles, weather is insane, and everyone that is near the center is a war hawk. I feel like I'm screaming into the void but honestly I'm just scared and want to know I'm not alone in this feeling
We seek the end of the current world order. We want revolution, presumably, which means the end of the (previous) world. I long for the end of the world. The way things were going could never last, we wasted too much, dumped too much, exploited too many, etc - and by "we" I mean collectively and the choice wasn't even ours but a few thousand key members of the ruling class, the only political actors in this current world.
Now, if you mean, like, the "end of the world" where nothing comes after and its just stretches of wilderness and quickly-decaying ruins of civilization - I don't think that's terribly likely, of course not zero because we still have the US nuclear stockpile. If you mean "the end of the world" where there is a reduction of the standards of living and the barbarism end of socialism or barbarism, that could happen. Climate change might mean no more agriculture, especially if there's nothing done and some tipping points are reached. There's still time to mitigate the worst and take action and even if we don't, it is fairly far off - not saying you won't be affected, there will be heat waves that kill seniors regularly in the west around the 2060s nevermind secondary effects like climate refugees or conflicts inducing fascistic reaction.
And of course, the world needn't end for your world to end. Not saying death, but you've already pointed out some stuff that changed like not being able to participate publicly in society because of the mishandling of a pandemic for 3+ years. Or people losing their jobs and homes and just never being able to claw back out of the reserve army of labor. And, yes, that's here just not distributed. The world has ended for quite a few people. I'm Metis and Dene, for the Dene people our world ended a while ago. For the Metis, we're the disinherited and never really had a world. And that's now coming for the sons and daughters of the settlers in the new world.