There was an article that came out a few days ago by someone who had lived thru the collapse of their country. Basically they said that Americans keep expecting a sharp sudden collapse, but that’s not how it happens. The normal everyday mundane bullshit just continues if you’re in the middle class, you just might narrowly avoid being bombed on the subway one day and the next day step over a dozen bodies on your way into the office, but a lot of the boring mundane just continues for the people who are ‘comfortable’. I can’t remember the country, but they said that America is already in collapse—that we are having parity of death toll from COVID on like a weekly basis over 3 months to their entire civil war. I’ll link it if I can find it when I’m back at pc. Thanks to beam for linking it below
In the last three months America has lost more people than Sri Lanka lost in 30 years of civil war. If this isn’t collapse, then the word has no meaning. You probably still think of Sri Lanka as a shithole, though the war ended over a decade ago and we’re (relatively) fine. Then what does that make you?
The normal everyday mundane bullshit just continues if you’re in the middle class, you just might narrowly avoid being bombed on the subway one day and the next day step over a dozen bodies on your way into the office
Very well put and I'd say the US was already there 20 years ago with the whole school shooting episodes, the frequency in how they repeated and the collective inability of 300million people to give enough of a damn about their own children being turned into swiss cheese at school was already a sign of collapse 20 years ago. One of like 3 dozen or so bright neon signs anyway.
We are seeing it again and it is accelerating, now almost the entire collective pretends it is fine if their children catches a deadly virus because statistics or something.
Of course there is always the giant elephant in the room of police violence against minorities then and now, but you could reasonably explain away as nothing new, a country built on slavery etc...
There was an article that came out a few days ago by someone who had lived thru the collapse of their country. Basically they said that Americans keep expecting a sharp sudden collapse, but that’s not how it happens. The normal everyday mundane bullshit just continues if you’re in the middle class, you just might narrowly avoid being bombed on the subway one day and the next day step over a dozen bodies on your way into the office, but a lot of the boring mundane just continues for the people who are ‘comfortable’. I can’t remember the country, but they said that America is already in collapse—that we are having parity of death toll from COVID
on like a weekly basisover 3 months to their entire civil war.I’ll link it if I can find it when I’m back at pc.Thanks to beam for linking it belowWas this the article?
Yes that’s the one! Thanks
Very well put and I'd say the US was already there 20 years ago with the whole school shooting episodes, the frequency in how they repeated and the collective inability of 300million people to give enough of a damn about their own children being turned into swiss cheese at school was already a sign of collapse 20 years ago. One of like 3 dozen or so bright neon signs anyway.
We are seeing it again and it is accelerating, now almost the entire collective pretends it is fine if their children catches a deadly virus because statistics or something.
Of course there is always the giant elephant in the room of police violence against minorities then and now, but you could reasonably explain away as nothing new, a country built on slavery etc...