Life in a collapsed society

Question from the Internet:

“What does a collapsed society look like for everyday people while a new society is being built up?”

This depends on the level of people’s awareness and on the level of collapse.

I remember when Greece was in the depth of the widely publicized financial crisis that affected the whole world, the simple people on the small islands, in smaller villages of the country lived just like on any other day, dealing with their usual activities related to the simple, honest life.

On the other hand, when there is war when even basic necessities become scarce, everybody feels this and nobody can go on even in the most simple fashion.

In our days we become more and more integrated, interdependent, so any collapse, any difficulty is almost immediately felt by everybody. Most importantly our collapse relates most obviously to our connections to other people, how much we can’t trust each other.

We feel ever more viscerally that as long as we all only think about ourselves we inevitably live, survive, succeed in everything at each other’s expense.

But from this, we will also know how we need to rebuild our already collapsing, collapsed societies that are on life-support all over the world: we need to learn from Nature how to build Nature-like, mutually integrated, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing societies.

Only then will we become able to solve our mounting global problems and safeguard our collective human survival in Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent system.