Seeking Friends for the End of the World

. . . . . . .Seeking Friends for the End of the World
Beginning new Collapse Club in Boston: “How are we to live in a time of collapse?”
https://www.collapseclub.com/ https://postdoom.com/
. . . Some of us feel the ‘tipping point’ for coming out of denial was a long time ago. AI, societal decay, WMD (5 we know of), institutional decay, patriarchy domination, climate, pollution, no wisdom or vision, population, … is anything ringing a bell? We are only body-brain consumers now; the mind-heart-soul-meanings-values, the substance of human life, that which enables social cooperation, seems to be gone.

. . . ‘why do humans need to deny their problems so much’ google [12/15/25]
[Humans deny problems to protect themselves from overwhelming stress, anxiety, or painful truths, using denial as an unconscious defense mechanism to preserve their self-concept and avoid confronting threats. This can be a temporary buffer to allow for gradual adjustment or an unhealthy coping strategy that prevents necessary action and can worsen problems over time.]

David Suzuki has the best metaphor of all, “We're all in a giant car going 100mph heading towards a brick wall & everyone's fighting about where they're going to sit,”

[add to interests: loss of respect & dignity; loss of sacredness; contracting consciousness; loss of collective accountability; loss of the BIG 5; Truth, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Community; increasing dependence on external technology/decreasing reliance on human agency, broken prisons, addictions, homelessness, secularized religion, ageism, persecutions (political, economic, judicial, religious, race, cultural); massification into mass men; loss of causal thinking, gun violence, police militarism]