>>509745054The real terror begins once you realize we don't have to lose a war for the collapse to occur. That things can just fall apart, continuously, until one day we're living in the Mad Max apocalyptic wasteland without any big events in between today and that (not far in the) future day. Even children could understand that if there were some 1980s-esque nuclear war that civilization would collapse, but it's not supposed to be possible without something like that. And yet, it really is possible for it to all just fall apart (not so) slowly. Peacemakers and diplomats might somehow avoid the war, but what can they do about the slow rot? Economists and mathematicians might figure out how to keep a stock market from imploding, but what can they do about the nihilism?
I have nightmares that do not end when I wake in the morning, because i know with absolute gut-wrenching certainty that there are 20 yr olds out there who have never eaten a fruit or vegetable that wasn't first processed into goyslop at a factory 500 miles away from where they ate it. And not one or ten or a thousand 20 yr olds like that, but hundreds of thousands or even millions of them.