Discussion Anybody else waiting for shtf (economic/societal collapse, climate change, ww3, bird flu etc.) before ctb?

[Giuicidio]

I honestly don't see society lasting more than a decade at this point, for any of the reasons in the title. I don't wanna fight over a can of beans or risk dying a painful death, so even if I don't decide to ctb early I can't see myself living much longer than a few more years.

 

[SomewhatLoved]

If there was a breakdown of society I would most likely go to the nearest pharmacy or hospital and try to break into their narcotic safe or med room and take a bunch of benzos or opioids and just OD

 

[TheHolySword]

nah. why wait tomorrow for what you can do today, so to speak. it doesn't matter what happens in 5 years or 10 or 50. i want to die now. plus that's an incredibly bold prediction for complete societal collapse (spoiler: it's not gonna happen in 10 years).

 

[Giuicidio]

If there was a breakdown of society I would most likely go to the nearest pharmacy or hospital and try to break into their narcotic safe or med room and take a bunch of benzos or opioids and just OD

Problem is, long before that people would probably already hoard pharmacies and grocery stores for everything they can get their hands on. Having a peaceful way to ctb ready before people start killing each other for food and resources is vital imo

nah. why wait tomorrow for what you can do today, so to speak. it doesn't matter what happens in 5 years or 10 or 50. i want to die now. plus that's an incredibly bold prediction for complete societal collapse (spoiler: it's not gonna happen in 10 years).

Maybe not complete, but just a few breadbasket failures, water shortages, extreme climate events, heatwaves or another pandemic could potentially cause billions of deaths, and when people start realizing they will be next and panic it will get ugly real quick

 

[Halfhourdays]

No, I'm not waiting for WW3, that's ridiculous.

 

[JesiBel]

I'm just paranoid about international conflicts and tensions these days. There's a huge escalation of violence, and a lack of humanity and sensitivity.. It's "every man for himself". Things really don't look good for the next few years.

Maybe having a fast CTB method is the best. I don't know if I'll be in this world when everything collapses anyway.

 

[Zoro1029]

I used to be this way but not anymore. I plan on going SN route but still need a functioning postal service to deliver me everything I need lol. The fact that Trump is already trying to overhaul the USPS makes things more urgent for me you dont what it will look like months or a year from now.

A recession seems inevitable pretty soon so you will start seeing mass layoffs soon. I plan on going out before then as long as I have everything I need.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Im not waiting. Not purposely anyway.

 

[33-vertebrae]

Everyone saying it's far-fetched to wait for an event such as this, as if they aren't putting it off anyway for a variety of personal reasons.

I've always said I would just commit if society fell - because if life sucks now, how much worse would it be in an honest-to-God lawless, animalistic world?

And for people saying that civilization collapse is far off - it's already happened in other countries.

Could you imagine if the US or the entirety of Europe looked like Gaza right now? Or Yemen? Or a Rwanda incident?

 

[ma0]

If an event like that does occur, I am getting out before then.

 

[Lo$t95]

Yes it will happen but why would you wait for it? It's not going to be entertaining it's going to escalate and people will suffer beyond anything the average person could even fathom. I doubt you would like to be in a city when this happens.

 

[Ijustcantanymore]

Not only waiting, but longing for it. I mean I'll be killed in the very early stages of it.

But as far as I'm concerned, humanity has earned its reckoning.

 

[glossble]

Tbh I prefer to get out before the shit hits the fan
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This world is already a hellhole and I really don't want to see the world and society fall even deeper down, hitting the rock bottom if we haven't already

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

It seems to be part of human psyche that we awaited at all times an apocalypse or armageddon in the near future.
The facts and statisticts paint a completely differenet picture. Never before in history so many people with regard to the word population died by war, violence, hunger or deseases. Never before the child mortality was so low. What do you think let the world population grew up to more than 8 000 000 000.

 

[gothbird]

You're not wrong. Feels like we've already tipped past the point of no return. Everything's unravelling all at once—economic collapse, climate systems breaking down, wars brewing, diseases mutating faster than we can name them. And somehow, through all of it, people are still clinging to the same old hatreds: racism, misogyny, bigotry.
We're being ground down by a system that only serves the powerful, and when it finally crumbles, it'll be the rest of us tearing each other apart over rusted tins and patches of dirt that used to matter. And for what? A few more years of misery, trying to survive in a world that doesn't want us?
I'm tired. Properly tired. And I get it—this isn't life, it's slow-motion collapse. It's waiting for the final blow while pretending things can still be normal. Some of us just don't want to fight over scraps. I'd rather go now, head high, than die crawling through the ashes of what used to be called civilisation.
There's no heroism in enduring a world like this.

 

[Green_leaf]

No, I'm not waiting for WW3, that's ridiculous.

Of course, but WW3 waits for no one either.

 

[Giuicidio]

You're not wrong. Feels like we've already tipped past the point of no return. Everything's unravelling all at once—economic collapse, climate systems breaking down, wars brewing, diseases mutating faster than we can name them. And somehow, through all of it, people are still clinging to the same old hatreds: racism, misogyny, bigotry.
We're being ground down by a system that only serves the powerful, and when it finally crumbles, it'll be the rest of us tearing each other apart over rusted tins and patches of dirt that used to matter. And for what? A few more years of misery, trying to survive in a world that doesn't want us?
I'm tired. Properly tired. And I get it—this isn't life, it's slow-motion collapse. It's waiting for the final blow while pretending things can still be normal. Some of us just don't want to fight over scraps. I'd rather go now, head high, than die crawling through the ashes of what used to be called civilisation.
There's no heroism in enduring a world like this.

Beautifully put. Society is gonna collapse but you still got to go to work tomorrow, and the most important thing is hating minorities.

 

[Gamelle]

I don't see Western society collapsing in our lifetimes. If we survived WWI, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, WWII and the tumultuous 60s and 70s, I doubt that this decade will finally be "the" decade.

 

[CarrotEater]

I'm not waiting for any of those, I don't wish for any of those, but life getting significantly worse definitely makes it easier to ctb.