Video: This is Collapse – what do we do now?

juscollMarch 24, 2025Uncategorized

VIDEO: This is Collapse – this groundbreaking event attracted 600 registrations from around the world. Calling for local preparedness and action, A/Prof Kate Booth, Dr Tadzio Mueller, and Tristan Sykes #TalkCollapse for a #JustCollapse!

This event was hosted by the University of Tasmania.

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notabilia says:

March 25, 2025 at 3:08 am

This was certainly a worthy presentation and discussion, even for a nettlesome futilist such as myself.
I understand that though you profess adherence to the goals of truth and honesty, not one of you can enter the realm of confrontation with the ultimate truth of powerlessness. Instead, euphemisms like “agency” and “resilience” have to be trotted out after the really brilliant excursions into defeat and loss.
Our times demand an incorporation of proportional understanding of victimhood (often mixed in with perpetrator privilege) – vast in the past, disturbingly so in the present, and almost unfathomably extensive in the future. No one wants to hear that, granted, but isn’t that what comments sections are for?

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1. juscoll says:
  
  March 30, 2025 at 9:09 am
  
  Thanks for your comment. Yes, speakers focused on what can be done in the context of collapse – this was the focus of the forum. But all speakers also referred to disempowerment and the limits of what can be achieved in collapse, and Tristan started his presentation talking about the inevitability of death using this as a framing that changed politics and activism. We are all going to die, so what do we do with the agency that we do possess?
  
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  1. notabilia says:
    
    March 30, 2025 at 9:23 pm
    
    Hmm, “the agency we do possess.”
    Well that’s just it – against ultrasocial collapse individual humans possess virtually no agency.
    Like that of any ant, we possess the micro-est of agency, and the corporate supersystem possesses the near entirety.
    Surely you’ve come across this objection in fora like r/collapse and through published works like that of Erik Michaels and Kyle Lewis.
    That aside, there were so many points of bravura storytelling in the presentations, and I understand that each of you feels compelled towards activism in the face of collapse.
    
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