We are entering an era characterized by intermittent supply chain shortages, medical fascism and parallel societies. The optimism of the early 2000’s is slowly but assuredly fading away into a faint memory.
For reasons ranging from peak oil, financial collapse, excessive immigration to climate change, both right-wing and left-wing doomsayers alike have been predicting the collapse of the West for some time. Despite the fact that the supposed collapse never seems to come, it appears we are slowly starting to see the cracks in the armour of our civilization. In the early 2000’s it felt like Western society was drunk off the optimism sold to us by futurists, neoliberals and progress-worshippers who assured us that science and non-religious morality would lead us to the promised land. Most bought into this rose-tinted lie about where our world was heading. Now, its becoming more and more clear that the science-worshipping progressive utopia is not to be.
While its true that the dramatic doomsday predictions of many preppers haven’t come true – at least not yet – instead of a dramatic event, we are witnessing a slow-burn decay of things we once took for granted. Prior to 2020, most couldn’t even imagine the notion of empty grocery store aisles or fuel shortages at the petrol station. Prior to 2020, talk of fertilizer or other supply chain shortages would have once seemed excessively dramatic but now these things are now actually happening. Prior to 2020, the notion that we would be segregating citizens by their state-approved injection status would have been interpreted as lunatic talk; within 18 short months, it is also a reality. All of these changes taking place within already atomized Western nations, alongside the increasingly harder to ignore inflationary trend have given many people a stark wake-up call to the world we actually live in.
Welcome to the grim dawn of decade of the 2020’s.