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There’s an urge down there in the modern people secretly hoping for the destruction the civilization. Get out of the current systems that dictate a life for you. I suspect that’s why very few people are panicking, a lot of people are rooting for it to happen.

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“The spirit of the world is the spirit of suicide” - Jacques Ellul

Then they're complete and utter idiots.

It’s not a rational thought, it’s an urge. Besides, people naturally believe that they will survive and the bad things won’t happen to them. That’s how people do stupid things all the time.

Yes, you are spot on. I've seen this many times in practice and it really never ceases to amaze me.

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