The Complacent Collapse

The realities people are too scared to face

You’d have to be living under a rock in a dark cave not to realise there are a lot of different issues going on in the world. For more than thirty years, I’ve been tracking areas of our civilisation that I noticed were starting to decay or decline. While there were only a few initially, and most of them related to the environment, I started studying the macro-level effects of our environment, economy, energy, and political world to see how they all fit together. And so, my list grew from six to seventeen over ten years.

I’ve consolidated them all into something I call The Complacent Collapse. This is because it’s the most dangerous of all kinds of crises, one that’s happening quietly. It’s not a sudden movie-like glorious explosion, but a slow, steady erosion of everything we’ve come to take for granted. Whether it’s the currency in our pockets or the inner strength of our own existence. We’re complacently sitting on our couches of comfort as the issues approach like dark storm clouds, while having our fingers in our ears and refusing to listen to reason from the people with raincoats and umbrellas. We’ve been sucked into this earn-to-consume narrative and have grown to ignore what is happening before our very eyes.

We’re not ignoring these seventeen systemic pressures because we’re stupid. We’re ignoring them because the modern world has perfected the art of keeping us wonderfully sedated in a sugar and binge-watching stupor. Between the dopamine hits and the safety net of over-therapisation and medicalised help, we’ve been lulled into a ‘happy bliss’ that makes any civilisational threats or resets someone else’s problem. We are, after all, good little citizens who’ve been conditioned since birth to believe our trust systems of government and institutions that only have our best interests at heart.

Some people I talk to, however, are starting to question what is happening out there. There is an ancient part of their brain that’s evolved to detect threats, and it’s starting to flash red, but they don’t fully grasp what it means and are certainly not aware of its magnitude.

The scale of the problem.

Homo Sapiens (that would be you and me) has long evolved into incredible problem-solving generalists over the three hundred thousand years we’ve been in this form. Modern schooling over the past hundred years has conditioned or groomed us to be hyper-focused on specialising in what we want to be as adults. Creativity and critical thinking, when it comes to solving problems across a wide range of areas, have been schooled out of us. We’ve been taught to listen to and believe government-trained teachers who encourage us to focus on one career so we can contribute as responsible adults. It all sounds so fluffy and nice, and it’s worked for many recent decades. The downside is that it blinkered us to what’s happening out there in the world and lulled us into a dangerous sense of security.

We believed our leaders in times of war, pandemics, and economic downturns that tough times only ever come around once or twice. And like I’ve said, we fell asleep at the wheel of our own lives in this warm cocoon of safety.

Well, those days are over. Here are the seventeen areas I have been monitoring, all clouds on the horizon and getting blacker as the days go by. No single one can be identified as the ultimate threat to us because several will pile into us at once, and we won’t know which ones, although we can make an educated guess, because they’re all linked by two things. Energy and the economy.

1. Economic collapse, massive debt, and monetary reset
2. Death of critical thinking. Decline of academia and education.
3. The unipolar world is dead. The multi-polar world has begun.
4. AI and the Crisis of Purpose (disruption, and lack of planning for energy requirements)
5. Geopolitical turmoil
6. Totalitarian Global institutions – Elite Technofeudalism.
7. Overtherapisation or the pandemic of psychiatry
8. Deglobalisation
9. The net-zero con and the Cult of Climatism
10. Destruction of masculinity
11. Welfare states are growing, killing purpose and ambition, causing soaring costs
12. Health crisis – mental and physical
13. Uncontrolled Migration
14. Energy crisis – the economy, AI, and lifestyles cannot function without energy
15. Dopamine sickness (screen addiction)
16. Information overload
17. Environmental issues – ocean pollution, resource security, biodiversity crashes

The Seventeen Issues We’re Complacent About

1. Economic collapse and monetary reset

We’ve built a truly incredible world on the back of cheap money within a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) model that can only survive on a continuous amount of new debt, and new people entering at the bottom of the ladder. It’s our very own Ponzi-scheme economy that needs loads of borrowing and new students entering the job market to keep the earn-to-consume treadmill going. The elite have learnt to game the system; hell, they created it, and they ensure that all the new printed [insert your currency here] are loaned into existence by the banks and used to buy up all the assets, leaving little for us and the ever-widening wealth gap.

Major historical cycles suggest we are due for a change in the reserve currency. It doesn’t mean the dollar disappears; it just means something comes along, possibly driven by a crisis, which means it’s replaced. The British Pound didn’t disappear when the dollar was named in 1953.

Our current economic system (and monetary system) will collapse and be replaced at some point because all economic cycles like this do. And we have forgotten our history, so it will come back to bite us in the arse. If all we had today was another Great Depression, I’d consider us lucky because many students of monetary history are forecasting much worse.

With all this uncertainty, the average person (you and me) still believes the old lies and trusts that the banksters (including the Central Gangsters) have our best interests at heart. Buy a home, keep all your savings in one bank in one country, and trust financial advisors who work on commission to have your best interests at heart. Oh, and I have a place at Buckingham Palace to sell you. The greatest skill you can have in the modern world is to learn about the creation of money and where it all goes. Understand the power of diversification when it comes to your wealth, and you will come out the other side with some of it intact. Remain ignorant and lose it all, or worse, become an underclass or serf in need of permanent welfare.

2. Death of critical thinking. Decline of academia and education.

The education system we created over the last hundred years, at its heart, has the sole purpose of producing a responsible and compliant citizenry that can be put to work, to consume, and to contribute. Without questioning any of it.

The lack of critical thinking has been drummed out of people from two sides. Firstly, it was drummed out of them in school, where they were taught a curriculum where there are only correct answers, and if you failed the year, you were not allowed to level up to the next layer of forced learning. Questioning why things were the way they were was forbidden, and free and independent thinking was frowned upon. Your role was to learn the set government program and sit for tests that would determine which career you’d start being whittled down into. Then you could go to university or college, where your prescribed education was ramped up to get you primed for the forty-five years of cubicle life as you lived from paycheck to paycheck.

Schools used to be about teaching you to question everything, including what your teachers and parents were teaching you. Then in university, you were taught to listen to all sides of the argument, respect differing opinions from others, then go out together, smoke weed and roll around naked with the very people you disagreed with. Nowadays, these are places where tolerance is ‘forced’ upon you, all except tolerance of people who disagree with you. Of course, you don’t drink anymore, don’t smoke or date someone who has differing red flags or political views from you. Professors, teachers, and parents have torn away the value of open disagreement and let young people drift into a vicious world with no safe spaces, despite what they were promised.

Secondly, there is the insidious concept of the social media echo chamber. Designed by behaviour shrinks for T-shirted nerds in garages or basements, solely used to corral and trap people in groups of similar thinking, where they can be fed a diet of brain bubble-gum dancing challenges and ice buckets with no beer in them. Hooked on dopamine, stronger than outhouse moonshine, there is no need for critical thinking because everyone agrees with you and you with them. Sprinkle a dusting of AI fake videos over this, and we are in for a treat the next few years, as people lacking critical thinking and judgment tell us they’re ready to take over the reins of power to govern humanity from their basement toilets.

2. The unipolar world is dead. Beginning of the multi-polar world.

Since the Second World War ended and everyone put their toy soldiers back in their boxes, a group of men got together to see who had any cash left to start over. It was decided that America had the most, and the Bretton Woods conference ushered in a new monetary system based on a gold-backed dollar.

The USA grew to be the world’s number one economy, and with its mighty navy and military bases all over the world, could guarantee safety for trade and supply ships. I’m not getting into the wrongs and rights of this, just that we thrived as a species in a unipolar world. Yes, some people disagreed with this, and we had a brief crisis called the Cold War, but the USSR was soon sent packing. We were all lulled into the new globalist world and revelled in its safety as we offshored all our manufacturing. This intern allowed other countries to grow as they embraced supply capitalism, and their GDPs grew rapidly. Soon, new rivals for the top spot began to emerge to challenge the status quo. As we cruised past 2025, it became obvious to anyone other than bureaucrats in the failing institutions of the West (UN, NATO, EU, etc.) that the new kids on the block, who had quietly grown stronger, wanted a little more of the pie. America’s hegemony is over, and we’ve now entered into a multipolar world. We’ll see the end of the G7 and probably move to something like a Core5 of the USA, China, Russia, India, and Japan. The global spoils are about to be divided up, so hold onto your horses.

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