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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Spector07 on 2024-09-10 06:17:02+00:00.

So, I’ve been thinking about it for some time. Going through this sub feels like I’m living in the opening act of a dystopian film, where society has already crumbled or is on the brink. The discussions here remind me of those slow, haunting cinematic intros like in Children of Men or Mad Max where the audience is dropped into a world that’s unrecognizable due to environmental devastation, economic chaos, and social breakdown. It’s almost as if we are collectively witnessing the foreshadowing of something irreversible. The news posts, research, and personal anecdotes shared here simply add layers of dread and realism, that to me sort of gives the sense that we’re not just talking about collapse, but actually living through its opening stages (might be stating the obvious). What strikes me is how similar this feels to the kind of “before the fall” narrative we often see in films or books, where the story starts just before or as things start to go wrong in ways that can’t be undone. Does anyone here feel like this community is more than just a discussion and is rather a documentation of the early stages of a societal collapse we’re already in?