niklasbarning

Leute fangen an, darüber zu schreiben, dass wir in einer „Collapse-Gesellschaft“ leben und machen sich darüber Gedanken, wie sie mit dieser Tatsache umgehen können.
Anstatt groß meine eigenen Gedanken dazu zu schreiben, wie ich es schon einmal getan habe, werde ich hier eher die Zitate aus drei unterschiedlichen Artikeln sprechen lassen.

It feels like we are approaching the end of a specific social contract. Modernity is a project founded on patriarchal domination, on linear time, infinite extraction and unstoppable accumulation. In its five centuries, it has evolved into such an unnatural paradigm that it now only survives through extreme and perpetual violence; perpetrated indifferently against both humans and non-humans alike.”

Rosie Spinks

Die Lösung scheint zu sein, sich eher auf die kleinen Schritte zu konzentrieren.

So start thinking today about how you can attain some of those things elsewhere, from non-monetary or transactional means. Start small. Do you get all your pleasure and leisure from consumption, traveling, and other carbon or resource-intensive activities? Maybe you join a choir and make music with your neighbors, paint your surroundings, or work in a garden instead.

Rosie Spinks

Doch wenn man alles mit etwas mehr Fakten und weniger Gefühlen füttert, dann wird klar, dass Menschen schon immer mit der drohenden Apokalypse im Hinterkopf lebten.

Like many of his contemporaries, Columbus believed that the Earth was supposed to last for 7,000 years total, with only ~150 years remaining. More importantly, God had left us a list of things he wanted us to get done before he returned

Adam Mastoianni

Alles hat natürlich wieder etwas mit Bias zu tun:

Two biases could lead people to believe that humans are getting nastier over time, even when they’re not.

1. Humans pay more attention to bad things vs. good things in the world. And they’re more likely to transmit info about bad things—the news is about planes that crashed, not planes that landed, etc. We call this part biased attention.
2. In memory, the negativity of bad stuff fades faster than the positivity of good stuff. There’s a good reason for this: when bad things happen, we try to rationalize them, reframe, distance, explain them away, etc., all things that sap the badness. (Much of this might be automatic and unconscious.) But we don’t do that when good things happen, and so good things keep their shine longer than bad things keep their sting. We call this part biased memory.
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   We seem to assume that all the problems in the world arrived only recently, and we do this by default and without realizing it. Notice how people reflexively refer to institutions as “broken” or “rotten,” as if those institutions was once functional and fresh. Regardless of whether crime is going up or going down, people say it’s going up. It’s standard procedure to declare an epidemic of something—loneliness, misinformation, fighting at schools—without demonstrating that there’s more of it than there used to be. We talk about “late capitalism” as if it just passed its expiration date, when in fact that term is 100 years old.

Adam Mastoianni

Joan Westenberg erinnert uns daran, dass unsere Gesellschaft immer in Zyklen existiert und dass wir uns immer fragen sollten, in welchem Teil des Zyklus wir uns gerade befinden.

Instead of asking “how do we stop everything from getting worse?”, we might ask:

• Which cycles are we actually observing?
• What phase of each cycle are we in?
• How do these cycles interact?
• What historically has triggered phase shifts?
• How can we best prepare for the next phase?This might seem like cold comfort if you’re convinced we’re witnessing a unique civilizational collapse. But consider: Every great renaissance began during what seemed like terminal decline to those living through it. Every new golden age emerged from what appeared to be permanent decay.
  The cycles will turn. They always do. The question is whether we’ll be ready when they do.

Joan Westenberg

Wie so immer kann man bei Themen wie diesen schlussendlich sagen: Es ist nie so einfach, wie man denkt und immer komplex.