“The science-fiction writer William Gibson famously said, ‘The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.’ The same goes for armed conflict or social collapse.” Don’t just collapse, #JustCollapse!
Article – how collapse coexists with normality: https://adamisacson.com/collapse-is-unevenly-distributed/
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Interesting article, from 2020, when there were 1,000 Americans dying per day from Covid 19, at the peak of that crisis. That is many times higher than the daily death toll in Gaza, but it is a faint memory to most Americans now. “Normal” prevails–until it no longer can. Local or regional, temporary social traumas–which might even be justifiably labeled as “local collapses”–are not the same as global ecological collapse. When natural disasters exceed human ability to maintain social physical and economic infrastructures throughout the world, simultaneously, normal will be permanently gone. Civilization, as we know it will end. Those who might survive that must link with and learn Earth’s eco-centric alternative ways and create new communities, starting now.
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Yes, local and regional collapses are different from the unprecedented climate-ecological collapse that is unfolding. But even this global collapse plays out locally and regionally, meaning that the whole thing isn’t really unprecedented – many have already lived in a state of collapse of one form or another.
An important difference between Gaza and Covid is that one is genocide, the other, a pandemic.
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As I understood the basic point of the article, it was about how easily people can cling to “normal” even when collapse and severe social trauma is occurring to people all around them, or in the same nation. The author was also careful to point out how being spared from the most severe aspects of the trauma or being insulated by relative wealth and comfort play a role in that. I only compared those death tolls between Covid and Gaza to comment on his point related to how easily people forget, over time, when it does not hit them personally. As soon as I posted the comment, I realized that somebody would probably not get my point and think that I was minimizing the horror of genocide. I thought about editing it to avoid that misunderstanding and avoid hurting anybody who did not see my actual point, but I was in a hurry at that time. I am sorry for not making my point more clear.
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