Societal Collapse Quotes

“In fact, one of the main lessons to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. In that respect, the trajectories of the societies that we have discussed are unlike the usual courses of individual human lives, which decline in a prolonged senescence. The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“On taxi-dancing. She said the men prefer her because she is clean.”
― Evan wright , Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnu

“What can be spoken of soon comes to be condoned.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

“Creating distrust, division, confusion, and chaos, leading to massive societal dysfunction and collapse, is not a bug in the MAGA plan due to incompetence in personnel picks and policy: it’s a very deliberate design feature, and it will have dire global consequences.

And for accelerationists, evangelicals, fundamentalists, and Christian nationalists, it’s all a part of the big plan for the End Times.”
― H.M. Forester

“But it is not just Western youth who will be destroyed due to this madness; it is Western Civilisation that will crumble as a result.
What took millennia to build and shape will be broken apart in mere decades. Traditions and cultures that were passed down from
generation to generation and have evolved and existed for thousands of years will be forgotten and lost. The rich Western
heritage, history and Western way of life will all be washed away within a century of madness.”
― Mark Collett, The Fall of Western Man

“The strange, forgotten animals abandoned by the Company live among us, along with their insatiable curiosity, like Bornes that want nothing from the old world. They need nothing from it. They are their own captains and lead their own lives, although there are still human beings who see them as food, as expandable. In their fearlessness, I find a kind of solace. In how they pursue their own plans, their own destiny, I find relief. They will outstrip all of us in time, and the story of the city will soon be their story, not ours.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Addiction isn't a moral failure; it’s a societal one. In the ER, I’ve sutured wounds from overdoses and watched schools fail to arm kids against the coming storm. ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ isn’t fiction. It’s a glitter-coated bullet aimed at apathy. Here’s the truth: Lotus pills don’t just dissolve in your bloodstream. They dissolve families, cities, futures. I wrote this because nurses don’t just heal bodies; we armor souls. And sometimes, that armor is stormtrooper-plated and dripping in defiance.

Deanna LaForce RN], ER nurse and author of ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ (Star Wars cosplay tutorials sold separately).”
― Deanna LaForce, The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus. A Novella on Addiction and Trafficking Through the Eyes of an ER Nurse

“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.

“Things are worse than bad. They're crazy [paraphrasing Howard Beale in the 1976 film ‘Network’].”
― Etienne de L'Amour