Collapse

   Collapse of our civilization is a concerning scenario in which basic
   structures of society relatively rapidly fall apart and cause unusually
   large, possibly even world-wide horrors such as chaos, [1]wars, famine and
   loss of advanced technology. It is something that will very likely happen
   very soon due to uncontrolled growth and societal decline by
   [2]capitalism: we, the [3]LRS, are especially focusing on a very probable
   technological collapse (caused by badly designed technology as well as its
   wrong application and extreme overuse causing dangerous [4]dependencies)
   but of course clues point to collapse are coming from many directions
   (ecological, economical, political, natural disasters such as a coronal
   mass ejection etc.). Some have said that a society can deal with one
   crisis, but if multiple crises hit at once this hit may be fatal; however
   the dependence of current society on computer technology is so great that
   its collapse could be enough to deliver a fatal blow alone. Recently
   (around 2015) there has even appeared a specific term collapsology (also
   collapse informatics etc.) referring to the study of the potential
   collapse.

   There is a [5]reddit community for discussing the collapse at
   https://reddit.net/r/collapse. [6]WikiWikiWeb has a related discussion
   under ExtinctionOfHumanity.

   Collapse of civilizations has been a repeated theme throughout [7]history,
   it is nothing new or exceptional, see e.g. Maya empire collapse, Bronze
   age collapse, the fall of Rome etc. It usually comes when a civilization
   reaches high complexity and becomes "spoiled", morally corrupt and
   socially divided, which may also be "helped" by technological advancement
   (e.g. the Bronze age collapse is speculated to have been partially caused
   by the new technology of iron which has broken the old established
   structures) -- basically just what we are seeing today. Economic
   interdependence is especially dangerous, and since we are currently living
   under extreme form of [8]capitalism, we are extremely subjected to this
   threat: everyone is hyperspecialized and so practically no one is self
   sufficient, people don't know how to make food, build homes, make tools,
   factories are unable to produce anything without dozens of other companies
   providing material, technology and services for them; everything depends
   on highly complex and extremely fragile production chains. Besides
   dependence on economy, an equal or even greater danger may be our absolute
   dependence on computer [9]technology: nothing works without computers and
   [10]Internet, even that which could and should: factories, traffic,
   governments, hospitals, even many basic tools ("[11]smart" ones, "tools as
   a service", ...). It is extremely likely we'll sooner or later sustain a
   blow that will paralyze the Internet and computers, be it a natural
   disaster such as coronal mass ejection, an economic disaster (supply
   chains collapsing, ...), political disaster (war, cyber attacks, ...),
   unintentional or intentional "accident" ("oops, I just turned off all
   computers in the world that are running Windows" --[12]Microsoft
   employee), simple unsustainability of [13]maintenance of the exponentially
   growing complexity of computers or anything similar ([14]AI taking over
   the internet? :]). Thinking about it deeper, it seems like a miracle we
   are still here.

   In [15]technological world more and more people are concerned about the
   collapse, notably e.g. the [16]Collapse OS/[17]Dusk OS, operating systems
   meant to run on simple [18]hardware after the technological supply chain
   collapses and renders development of modern computers impossible. Collapse
   technology has its specific focus and areas of interest, for example
   [19]bootstrapping (a kind of self containment that allows the technology
   to set itself up), [20]self hosting, [21]simplicity, repairability,
   durability, offline work, low power consumption, usage of improvised parts
   (see e.g. [22]salvage computing). Collpase OS website predicted the
   collapse would happen before 2030. The chip shortage, financial, climatic
   and energetic crisis and beginning of war in Europe as of early 2020s are
   one of the first warnings showing how fragile the systems really is. { I
   also believe it to be most probable the collapse will come before 2030,
   but of course there is still a good chance it will be another decade or
   two late, this is impossible to predict with accuracy. In any case we have
   to get ready as soon as possible. ~drummyfish }

   [23]Ted Kaczynski (a famous primitivist mathematician that committed mass
   murderer to warn about the decline of society due to complex technology)
   has seen the collapse as a possible option. Internet bloggers/vloggers
   such as [24]Luke Smith and no phone man advocate (and practice) simple,
   independent off-grid living, possibly to be prepared for such an event.
   Even [25]proprietary normies like [26]Jonathan Blow warn of a coming
   disaster (in his talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization). [27]Viznut
   is another programmer warning about the collapse.

   The details of the collapse cannot of course be predicted exactly -- it
   may come in a relatively quick, violent form (e.g. in case of a disaster
   causing a blackout) or as a more agonizing slow death. CollapseOS site
   talks about two stages of the slow collapse: the first one after the
   collapse of the supply chain. i.e. when the production of modern computers
   halts, and the second (decades after) when the last modern computer stops
   working. It most likely won't happen overnight -- that's a very extreme
   case. A typical collapse may take decades during which all aspects of
   society see a rapid decline. Of course, a collapse doesn't mean extinction
   of humans either, just deaths of many and great losses of what has been
   achieved culturally and technologically.

   There also appeared a new area of study, so called [28]salvage computing,
   which instead of trying to find ways to design new technology better
   (without discouraging this of course) rather focuses on making use on
   what's already been produced, i.e. even potentially "bad" technology which
   is already around and just became artificially obsolete. This is not in
   conflict with trying to design new and better technology, just
   additionally trying to maximize the use of what's already there.

   { I've read a book called Blackout by Marc Elsberg whose story revolves
   around a fictional large collapse of power supply in Europe. A book called
   The World Without Us explores what the world would look like if humans
   suddenly disappeared. Also the podcast called Fall of Civilizations by
   Paul Cooper is awesome. ~drummyfish }

Live Documenting The Current Collapse Of Our Civilization

   This section will record the current in-progress collapse of our
   civilization as seen by me, [29]drummyfish. It may serve later generations
   and [30]historians, as I know any information left behind is important for
   avoiding repeating the mistakes, though I also know you will not learn and
   will repeat the mistakes anyway. A man can dream I guess. If you can take
   away just one thing though, please be it this: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT
   EVER ALLOW [31]COMPETITION TO BE THE BASE OF SOCIETY AGAIN.

  Late 2022 Report

   It seems like the collapse may have already begun. After the worldwide
   [32]Covid pandemic the Russia-Ukraine war has begun with talks of nuclear
   war already going on. A great economic crisis has begun, possibly as a
   result of the pandemic and the war, inflation is skyrocketing and breaking
   all records, especially gas and energy prices are growing to extremes and
   as a result basically prices of everything go up as well. Russia isolated
   itself, new cold war has begun. Many big banks have gone bankrupt. War
   immigrants from Ukraine are flooding into Europe and European
   fascists/nationalists seem to be losing their patience about it. People in
   European first world countries are now actually concerned about how not to
   freeze during the winter, this talk is all over TV and radio. The climate
   disaster has also started to show, e.g. in Czech Republic there was the
   greatest forest fire in its history as well an extremely hot summer, even
   tornados that destroyed some villages (tornados in this part of world are
   basically unheard of), winters have almost no snow unlike some two decades
   ago. Everything is shitty, food costs more and is of much lower quality as
   basically everything else, newly bought technology cannot be expected to
   last longer than a few months. Society is spoiled to an unimaginable
   level, extreme hostility, competition and aggressive commerce is
   everywhere, kids are addicted to cellphones and toxic social media, mental
   health of population rapidly deteriorates. Art such as movies and music is
   of extremely low quality, people hate every single new movie or video game
   that comes out. A neofascist party has won elections in Italy, in Czech
   Republic all socialist parties were eliminated from the parliament: only
   capitalists rule now -- all social securities are being cancelled, people
   are getting poorer and poorer and forced to work more and to much higher
   ages. Ads are everywhere and equate psychological torture. The situation
   now definitely seems extremely bad.

  Late 2023 Report

   Yep, the collapse is happening. All previously mentioned issues just
   deepen, though I stopped watching the news and just avoid the negative
   info to enjoy the last few years I have on this [33]Earth without much
   stress. Russian-Ukraine war is still happily ongoing (despite all the
   predictions that Russia will soon run out of resources lol) AND there is a
   brand new war in Israel, new immigrants are gonna flood Europe, then USA
   is probably gonna invade the weakened countries or something. [34]AI is
   currently breaking the [35]Internet, [36]Google became absolutely unusable
   which became noticeable even by normies now, it is just flooded by AI
   articles, news are an endless pile of AI generated nonsense. Technology is
   yet much worse than before, NOTHING now works without latest consumerist
   hardware, subscriptions and accounts, I started just buying old paper
   books and am thinking about abandoning computers altogether. USA culture
   is here like cancer, TV is littered SOLELY with political propaganda
   (SUPPORT MUH UKRAINE TAKE COVID VAX SUPPORT UR COUNTRYS ENCONOMMMMMMMMIE
   FUGHTTTTT RAACEEEEEESSSIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSAMMMM) taking turns with
   capitalist propaganda (ads, literally just people screaming BUY BUY BUY
   THIS FUCKING SHIT RIGHT NOW, BUY BUY BUYIT BUY IT BUUUUUUUUUY
   CONSOOOOOOOOOOOME THIIIIS
   CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMME). Watching it
   for 5 minutes literally makes you kill yourself. Hmm what else. NOTHING
   WORKS lol, you buy something, it is already broken, you pay for repair,
   they take money and return it unrepaired LMAO :D I am not kidding, it is
   literally the norm now, my bosses business is sinking due to all machines
   just breaking. Absolutely unqualified people now do all the jobs lol,
   there are literally teachers who CANNOT READ OR WRITE correctly, they just
   use Google to check how everything's spelled (I am NOT kidding, I have
   this from first hand sources). "Programmers" literally can't program, they
   just use AI. People are generally braindead, controlled by religions such
   as economy worship, [37]productivity cult, [38]women fascism (it has been
   officially declared now that women are physically stronger than man AND
   also smarter LMAO, every movie is obliged by law to include a scene where
   this is confirmed). I dunno man, this can't last much longer than a few
   years.

See Also

     * [39]capitalist singularity

Links:
1. war.md
2. capitalism.md
3. lrs.md
4. dependency.md
5. reddit.md
6. wikiwikiweb.md
7. history.md
8. capitalism.md
9. technology.md
10. internet.md
11. smart.md
12. microsoft.md
13. maintenance.md
14. ai.md
15. tech.md
16. collapse_os.md
17. duskos.md
18. hw.md
19. boot.md
20. self_hosting.md
21. kiss.md
22. salvage_computing.md
23. ted_kaczynski.md
24. luke_smith.md
25. proprietary.md
26. jonathan_blow.md
27. viznut.md
28. salvage_computing.md
29. drummyfish.md
30. history.md
31. capitalism.md
32. covid.md
33. earth.md
34. ai.md
35. internet.md
36. google.md
37. productivity_cult.md
38. feminism.md
39. capitalist_singularity.md