"On average it's an unreflecting, unintegrated, fundamentally self-destructive society we belong to, one that is probably stuck in a downward spiral to some kind of collapse."

Yeah, i know what you mean, the centre cannot hold, things fall apart and all that, everything tends towards entropy. And feel pretty much the same way.

And yet...history shows us that, on a human timescale, everyone who's ever thought this has been wrong. Which makes my brain hurt. But if the world ends soon at the hands of some fundamentalist group or other, as seems to be the most likely prediction, is that a symptom of gradual collapse? Or an apocalyptic event? Kind of feels like it would be both, at the same time. Hm, brain hurts more lol.

ps. hello!