Byzantium was in decline for seven centuries until the Ottomans pulled the plug. Rome was in decline for several centuries prior to its sacking.
Climate change and the accompanying plagues, droughts, famines, and calamities that accompany it might accelerate and exacerbate the state's capacity and willingness to respond to these crises, but all it might mean is that this is a new normal added to the reproleterization of American life.
I don't really have a point but it is just a thought that I (perhaps others) are going to have to accept that future, and that is a kind of new world I am unsure as to how to adapt to.
I do powerful hallucinogens every full moon and live a low carbon nomadic hippie lifestyle. You can just go outside and work on farms and eat the fruit and stuff.
it’s way better than capitalism, and you are in for a treat!
How to adapt to new mindsets? Put yourself in new environments. In addition, popular illicit drugs are actually good for inducing beneficial personality changes and improvements in subjective ratings of mental health through modifying neuroplasticity. Be very careful to stick to materialism. It’s generally safe. And extremely fun.
Begin switching to a vegan diet if you haven’t done so already. Oat/soy milk is delicious and if the entire world doesn’t get to own a refrigerator, neither do you, comrade. Also for all we know this “politics” stuff might just be fiber intake.
The greatest advantage materialists are going to have right now, psychologically, is to be able to see that the end of capitalism isn’t the end of the world.
We can see beyond capitalism and maintain unity and revolutionary optimism, and ultimately become the universal soldiers that we will need to be to protect humanity from extinction (and any more suicidal fascist plots)
considering how pretty much the only things that make life worth living for me are Treats, the end of civilization may as well be the end of the world for me