The best thing to happen is if your world view _does_ fall apart. Because at least then you will be able to consciously _choose_ the factors that will go into building your next worldview. Be sure to give yourself enough time and space and compassion to allow this process to unfold.

The dominant worldviews in practice today are woefully inadequate to the predicaments we are currently facing. It's the next higher level problem as what Einstein said: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” In other words, we can't solve the problems caused by our current worldview using only the types of thinking that can be generated by our existing worldview. We need a new _kind_ of thinking.

And this is what is instilling this sense of dread and despair in people who have been paying attention. Believe me, many of us who have been singularity- (and/or collapse-) aware for at least a few years have gone through the stages of grief.

But living in an inflection point of human (and maybe universe) history is going to be filled with amazing and awe-inducing things, as well as what we currently think of as unfathomable horrors. I find a bigger worldview inspired by Buddhism to be helpful for me in learning how to accept, and then hopefully navigate, what's coming.

Maybe this is the premise behind the whole billionaires in the bunkers mentality. No one can bunker down indefinitely. But it might be possible to ride out the initial wave of hysteria, which will be insanely dangerous for any civilian caught out in the open.

I used to be full scale doomer, but now think if nature plus human nature quickly knocks out human CO2 generating capacity, ecosystems and whatever bands of highly resilient hunter gathers remain, might have a shot at rebuilding a decent planet. Even if it takes a mere 200K years to recuperate.

Just a couple years of heat/drought-induced crop failures in 2 or 3 of the world’s “breadbasket” farming zones will be enough to starve millions of people, and lead to a bunch of knock-on effects like financial markets seizing up, ultra fascism, resource wars. I mean we are having just one small regional war right now and the whole world experiences just how little resilience we have in our global systems.

And it won’t be just a single event that we can bounce back from. Now that human civilization and earth’s ecosystems are so fragile, and the rot is so deep, there will be wave after wave of civilizational and earth collapse.

It’s gonna get ugly but hopefully the rapaciousness of human civilization is strongly and quickly curtailed before the near complete extinction of all life on earth.