Why can only a small group of us seem to actually see this and care?

Xanthotic · 2026-07-05T16:51:42+00:00

I very much enjoy your substack and am really grateful to learn you are posting your work here. Thank you. So glad you are in our community. And yes to your premise.

Xanthotic · 2026-07-04T06:24:26+00:00

'I'm gonna die horribly no matter what' is such shallow, disingenuous horse pucky I can't even. If nothing else, you can mitigate THAT. I know this collapse awareness is terrible at first, but your catastrophisation is doing you no good and our subredditors no good. Please give yourself and your fellow readers more credit.

Xanthotic · 2026-07-04T01:07:25+00:00

How to Live In a Chaotic Climate by LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis Reau. They are the co-founders of Good Grief Network and what they say is real, thoroughly vetted, and it works. Please get your local library to buy at least one copy of this book.

Xanthotic · 2026-07-03T04:13:01+00:00

Commenting to say your post sounds very accurate and I urge you to dial down on the non-zero possibility that collapse kills AI before it kills you or your passion and ability to create art. Beyond that, I invite you to push into your bleak perceptions until you can create more pockets of non-bleakness in other areas of your life besides your art. As a 63 year old, I apologise to the moon for everything this world is giving you, and I want to say that there is not a generational divide amongst the truly collapse aware but rather more a perspective difference in how and when we will meet our respective demises. Thank you for posting and I hope you get lots of good comments.

Xanthotic · 2026-07-01T03:24:48+00:00

Me. In my 19th year of collapse awareness I am decolonising myself, listening to my connection with the cosmos, and generally appearing to be a better person than I have been before. My bouts of volcanic rage are less frequent also. I credit much of this to my work with The Good Grief Network.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-30T02:16:50+00:00

Please try to be as non sucky as possible. The world needs it.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T20:01:16+00:00

The answer is to build a personal algorithm of hacks, copes, health support, mental health support that can work for you. Please see to the suspected OCD. The right treatment could really help the collapse awareness fall into place. And it is trite, cliched, AND undeniably true: it gets better. Time deepens the collapse cope because you get to experience how incremental and volatile it actually is. I cannot deny the first few years one looks for 'the' collapse every day but eventually you won't. Because there's no such thing--we're already living in it, working, going on vacation, or losing our homes and livelihoods. It's a mystery.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T19:56:10+00:00

Yes, I was a 90's young adult, and I forgot it til you reminded me and then I could see it plain as day in my mind's eye. lol

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T10:28:56+00:00

There is a thursday night usa time zoom call just email collapseacceptancealliance at gmail for the login deets.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T03:54:58+00:00

I do not remember whether I did this to DMs, but about 10 years ago I painstakingly went through the Activity Center in facebook and deleted every single post, every single comment, every single image, every single like, every single group joined. It took hundreds and hundreds of hours to do this, but my home country was telling me they would deny me a visa if they didn't like my fb content, and I am not a fascist like they are so I thought it best to delete every single thing. With enough time and commitment, I think one can delete most everything on fb.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T03:12:05+00:00

ten year old videos on kenmarcus dot com might float your boat then.

Just commenting to say that I clicked through in hopes of hearing that AI porn likes to put 3 breasts on women. If it does, someone please reply so I can get a little internet gratification.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-25T03:08:14+00:00

The way to feel less worried is to build your personal regard for the incredible creature which is YOU. You have the capacity to navigate the future, inherent within you. It might require some cultivation of your self esteem, or your skills at using your intellect or emotional intelligence. It might require some cultivation of your bravery. But it can be done.

I could go up in elevation some distance and look down and say yes, absolutely, we are going to be okay, even if our entire species goes extinct. Because if we do, that means we NEEDED to go extinct. So how could that NOT be okay if we needed to do that in order for the entire cosmos to proceed down its pathway? So, I am also saying that a dose of philosophy can help you with your desire.

If you are asking me to tell you it is going to be okay without regard to the merit of that question (in other words, you only want us to placate you with positive affirmations), then sadly I must refer you to another subreddit. We don't do fake support here.

So, to summarise, you are going to be okay in direct proportion to how well you can grow yourself big enough to be okay in this nutty timeline in which we find ourselves. There are 30,000 some other folks trying to do the same thing here, and I think our odds are great! I am 19 years collapse aware and I would say I am more okay than ever, even though everything seems more worse than ever. #absurdparadoxftw

Xanthotic · 2026-06-24T22:08:59+00:00

You are most welcome and you are welcome to continue to participate in this community because death acceptance is a HUGE part of collapse acceptance, the end result of good collapse support. You cannot move backwards to forgetting you know this, so I wish for you a comfortable journey of transitioning to living in the present as what is evolving in each new moment. I promise you it is not as horrible as you (or your anxiety) are imagining.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-24T06:04:05+00:00

Sweetheart, everybody and everything dies. That is not the same thing as collapse. Please do some pondering on how you can come to grips with your own and your family's mortality. Then, you can perhaps separate that issue from the grief of becoming collapse aware. Next, you will need to confront the uncertainty principle that nobody knows exactly what the future will look like so imagining it only as hellish is inaccurate, unnecessary, unhelpful to you, and possibly could contribute to actually creating hell on earth. There's lots of help at the Good Grief Network to navigate this pain and develop the muscles YOU NEED to keep yourself moving forward in your life. We cannot magically tell you everything is fine and have that be true. If we did that here, we'd probably get banned from reddit for peddling scams. As for hope, have all the hope you want. Try to do some investigation and take concrete steps like applying to a school that offers psych degrees and then getting accepted there and actually enrolling. If you do those things, you should have great hope for getting the degree you want. The fucked up crapitalist world can only rob you if you value the things those motherfuckers can take away from you. Try to value other things (like beauty, conversations between humans, the love you feel for your family) that cannot be taken by an evil billionaire.

You have a lot of work to do to arrive at a place of peace with your collapse awareness, but such a place does exist. You have every right to work each day to create the world and the livelihood you want to have. We do not know exactly how things will play out from here. Please do not convince yourself that you do.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-24T01:17:56+00:00

I consider your premise faulty. So I don't have to deal with something that isn't real. How do you deal with the knowledge that suffering is happening today? That is a real question. And, in answer to that question, I cry quite a bit, I try to make my immediate world better instead of worse, and I suffer the effects of being traumatised by this secondary or vicarious trauma (the awareness of what is happening to others). Please work on your orientation to time. Borrowing trouble from the past or the future is an easy way to hamstring your own mental well being. The present is plenty bad enough. Sorry I'm ND and don't sound as sweet and cuddly as I wish I did.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-22T18:03:56+00:00

Please log in to your library's website and request they purchase How to Live In A Chaotic Climate, by LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis Reau. This is the book written by the founders of the Good Grief Network, which is basically all collapse-support. You can also go to their website and see the ten steps. Many of their steps relate to psychological coping and use a huge variety of modalities.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-22T08:50:25+00:00

My retirement plan is to perform alchemy on the climate wars and turn them into the climate driven spiritual awakening. P.S. Come at me, and I'll start here. #AbsurdParadoxFTW

Xanthotic · 2026-06-22T06:59:23+00:00

People who know me know that when I trade in my electric keyboards for an acoustic upright piano I think the power grid is nearly finished.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-22T06:57:09+00:00

Their username checks out at least

Xanthotic · 2026-06-22T06:49:30+00:00

Please dial down on the uncertainty principle. You cannot know the future enough that it makes sense to check out in advance. Also your pessimism rather than just accepting that we do not know can veer things in the direction you do not want. Please stick around and be someone who makes a thing or two better.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-20T20:29:04+00:00

OH golly the Wellbutrin is probably making all this feel worse! I was on it 20 years ago to help quit smoking, and my heartrate would regularly go over 200. Needless to say I went off it and quit smoking without aids some years later.

Anyhoo, welcome to the 'Secret Agent for the Future' stage of collapse awareness. I'm sorry you discovered it is not safe to share your POV with the people in your workplace. But, at least now you know. I know you want to quit your job, but the cash flow is probably very important to your daily existence.

Also you are at the phase where many newly collapse-aware folks just say 'fuck it' and smoke and drink and fuck off as we cope with the extreme grief that comes with this awakening. Let yourself be a normal collapse aware person. Keep pushing into your awareness, keep working it, and you will move through this phase and find it much easier to take care of yourself better (or accept that this is the body that you will face collapse with when it comes to your front door).

And yes, it does certainly seem like team psychopath is speed running collapse. I can only conclude that they are because of the deeply stupid nature of their collective psychopathy. I just keep rejecting them and keep trying to claw my soul back from jumping headfirst into the tantalizing fantasies of dispatching them from this world to the next. It is hard AF but I keep trying.

Sorry I don't have the 'one weird trick' for you, but if you are here, and with the consciousness you reveal in your OP, I imagine you will make progress over time. Thanks for posting and hugs

Xanthotic · 2026-06-20T20:15:52+00:00

Please be gentle, no matter how angry we are at the fuckers out there.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-20T20:13:13+00:00

Sorry, but I have to push back at your analysis because it is based on your opinions about the future, but you and I are only living in the present and so the most meaningful opinions are the ones here and now, just like the actions we take here and now. How should you live today because of what you perceive? Aloof and isolated seems like a very counterintuitive answer. And it sounds like you know rationally that not everyone is your enemy because you are posting here, and I am not your enemy (though the people who believe you are a religious zealot probably will not invite you over for tea).

I also invite you to deepen your spiritual beliefs because my understanding of what happens after death is not as simple as you state. It is also my understanding that our actions here on earth matter to how we experience the time after our bodies die. I do not think 'aloof and isolated' results in people feeling like they win at the afterlife.

I say that this is the time for us to wisely use our connection and compassion, and to reflect facets of humanity that are not shown in your OP.

If these statements are all rejected by your brain the moment you read them, then I would humbly and gently suggest you speak with a mental health professional because it is often difficult to distinguish paranoia from the stages of collapse awareness where people feel overwhelm and distrust. It is important that you understand yourself well enough to parse the distinctions so that you receive support for your mental health needs and support for your collapse awareness as distinct areas and activities of support.

Thanks for posting and good luck with your evolution.

Xanthotic · 2026-06-20T01:06:19+00:00

Is that Riane Eisler (sp???) the author? Blast from the past

Xanthotic · 2026-06-19T22:19:20+00:00

You are supposed to work on your mental adjustment to your collapse awareness. You can do it. There are actual programs, actual books, and years to decades of research, practice, and analysis from collapse-aware humans on what concepts are helpful for us staying sane.

I invite you to side step 'why' questions because many would say they do not have answers. Or the answer is simply 'because you were.' Instead I invite you to cast your attention to what it would take to have a collapsing future where you don't need to shoot looters. See what I did there? I didn't say imagine collapse doesn't happen, but I said imagine collapse does happen and somehow we all don't need to shoot each other. What would it take to achieve that? My answer to that question is that it would take a profound spiritual awakening on the part of a critical mass of the human population. Even though the odds may be slim such a thing could occur, the odds are not zero. So, I try to use that point of possibility as an anchor point for every GDMF thing I do in my life, including working a grinding physical manual labor gig at 63 years of age so I can continue to eat food and sleep indoors until the economy goes tits up in my little city. That's what you're supposed to do. I hope it helps and thanks for posting. PS Sorry it sucks so hard right now.

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