#societal collapse

[intothepast9]

taylor lorenz did a really good analysis of societal collapse since 2020 and the moment of hope that 2020 represented that they want you to forget about https://youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?si=FalhwejkxERUupiF

[thegoodmorningman]

Unlike the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, this obligation will last forever!!! Good Morning!!!

[israelite-not-black3]

Prepare for the epic final finale of Babylon, because it's going to be dramatic. 🇺🇸⌛

[justasuta]

we all cope in our own way

[jangillman]

"My family s0ld me to the industry when I was 14 years old and when ever wanted to complaîn, they never listened cuz all they cared about was the money. When I was with Diddy, I saw and did things which no kid should ever do nor see." Justin Bieber

"It was hard for me being that young and being in the industry and not knowing where to turn to. Everyone turnęd their backs on me, even my own family because all they wanted was the money. I saw things which any kid shouldn't see, and I did things which any kid shouldn't do because I had no choice.

What I went through in this industry, I don't wîsh that upon anybody. There are things in the industry that people don't wanna talk about because it'll reveal things which shouldn't be revealed. It's just so sîck because no one is willing to take the rîsk and say it. I've just decided to distance myself from this industry and heal cuz I'm still hũrt."

----Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber crîed while talking about his experience in the industry🥲‼️

[wordshaveteeth]

Fifty years of sociological, psychological, and documentary evidence has converged on this simple yet profound finding. It has been reported in study after study, including earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorist attacks such as 9/11, and the mass bombing of cities. The world crumbles away, often revealing the best in us — our cooperative, civil side.

- Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

[the-angry-acrobat]

omg have u read mary shelley frankenstein can u yappp im like 2 chapters in but like eeeeee

omg thank you for asking me to do this I hope you won’t regret it

I fucking love frankenstein and I’m so happy to hear you’re reading it, do you like it so far?? mary shelley is the loml.

are you okay with semi spoilers? I’m guessing you briefly know the story without reading the whole book anyway, so it won’t be too detrimental

i’ll tell you what I greatly admire about the book. victor frankenstein is a scientist in search for the secret of life, having studied the decay of living things, and chemical processes. he conducts experiments, tries to impart life into a body, using parts of dead plants and animals etc, but when he succeeds in electrocuting it into existence, he is horrified by his creation and abandons it. the themes of the danger of knowledge, and of your own creation being (or becoming) something you can’t even stand or comprehend despite it being your own doing (and having disgust and fear for something you yourself brought to life), and such destructive cycles were so important to me. it plays on the human limits and the many consuming consequences of defying nature (and your own nature). victor frankenstein chased the secret of life itself but the burden of knowledge was too much for him to handle. something that is so interesting to me is how the book was based on so much of mary’s own personal trauma and her life experiences, including how she was treated by her father and the rejection she felt, all the grief she had from the loss of her mother when she was younger, and the ostracism and abandonment she felt at different points in her life. not to mention how such rejection and shunning, and unconventionality, can eventually lead to a person feeling monstrous and even grotesque (or being viewed that way). it was like she created victor to create the monster but the monster was at the same time herself—a cycle of creation and destruction—and i can resonate with that a lot. the story spoke to me on so many levels. for one, as a disabled teenage girl, our society views disability as malformation and miscreation. it’s difficult to explain the unbelievable extent to which able bodied people view us as abnormal and how that can lapse into monstrous, even unintentionally but sometimes not. we’re turned into something freakish and everything regarding disability and the disabled experience is stigmatised, and its my daily life. frankenstein’s monster is universally rejected and treated with disgust, fear, contempt, and horror, and that is an experience I can understand and found so interesting.

what was also so interesting to me was the monster’s innate wish to be a part or society despite how he was treated by it on all levels. he was abandoned by his own creator and was confused, and shunned because of his physical grotesqueness that blinded society to his initially gentle and kind nature. he tried to show them that he was not an inherently evil being, showing sensitivity and compassion, such as assisting a group of peasants, and saving a girl from drowning. but after a time he lapses into being out for revenge on his creator for inflicting this all on him. it was so heavily about how society itself can turn someone into a monster just by treating them like one for long enough, despite the monster’s best intentions and being born without any instilled evilness or anything, and he ends up torn between hatred and compassion, all because of how he appears. and his creator victor, who shows nothing but hatred to him as well, is the only being he has any sort of relationship or connection with, leaving him incredibly lonely and angry. it was such a cool and interesting theme and so clever

this is a very long yap but I hope you get smth out of this lmfao

I can’t waittt to hear how you’re liking the book and your thoughts on it

<3

[matildalyonne]

Now you see, if we were a serious civilization, we would learn from the Crowdstrike/Windows IT outage and realize that a society where one program having a bug can shut down the whole world is stupid. And we would probably move to decentralize, and try to be self-sufficient, so that food getting on our table is not wholly dependent on any single service.

But that's a very big if.