The Plan Is There Is No Plan — We’re Supposed to “Learn to Live With” Collapse

Call it the Great Gaslighting of the 2020s. Take a glance at some of the headlines above. “Climate change obsession is a mental disorder. “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.” “With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore Covid.” “One more Covid Summer. Will it always be like this?” Meanwhile, in the real world? “July will <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjU_Men6ruAAxXWATQIHX-AA1QQFnoECBIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F7%2F31%2Fjuly-set-to-become-worlds-hottest-month-on-record-what-happened&usg=AOvVaw1riN_Cq92pHYN-sh8tCMCJ&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">likely be the</a> world’s hottest month on record and possibly the warmest in 120,000 years, according to climate scientists.” The killing heat is here. People are <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiZo4O56ruAAxU7GjQIHQvvBLwQxfQBKAB6BAgREAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcronkitenews.azpbs.org%2F2023%2F07%2F05%2Fcontact-burns-from-hot-surfaces-lead-to-hospitalizations-some-deaths%2F&usg=AOvVaw21WjAU4fvnqF6uCa2KChY-&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">dying of burns</a> they get from falling onto superheated surfaces — roads, streets, pavements, patios. Canada’s still <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiS4efr6ruAAxUNGjQIHbknB7IQxfQBKAB6BAgREAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2023%2F07%2F31%2Fweather%2Fbc-wildfires-canada-washington-climate%2Findex.html&usg=AOvVaw3WPVKxRYgd0Rh-cKd6Jd1s&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">on fire</a>, from coast to coast — and nobody knows how to put megafires that big out. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwie5tng6ruAAxVXODQIHabwC70QxfQBKAB6BAgJEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fweather.com%2Fnews%2Fweather%2Fvideo%2Fshifting-heat-dome-locks-in-from-texas-to-southwest&usg=AOvVaw3dr0KfFh_Q5SP4vMVymwPJ&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Heat domes</a> are heading back to America and Europe. China just saw apocalyptic <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj5nNzT6ruAAxVCIzQIHUrVCA8QvOMEKAB6BAgUEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2Faug%2F01%2Fchina-eleven-killed-in-beijing-as-heavy-rains-hit-city-for-a-fourth-day&usg=AOvVaw3PAQ0WTampohQzwQalFuec&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">floods</a>. Oh, and — <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiR3p7I6ruAAxUnHjQIHTdYAmQQxfQBKAB6BAgfEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fhealth-shots%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2F1190443473%2Fthe-cdc-sees-signs-of-a-late-summer-covid-wave&usg=AOvVaw05zI-SyP0ao9j2HT1OkkO2&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Covid’s back</a>. If it feels apocalyptic, that’s because it is. It’d be bad enough if we just had climate change to deal with. But we don’t. We have…a panoply of existential threats. Climate change. Plus pandemics. Plus <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi59_GT67uAAxXcCTQIHVoQAoEQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fthis-is-what-a-world-collapsing-into-fascism-looks-like-fde79abede1b&usg=AOvVaw2-0OgwlbGbhcpgNgHtc8R2&opi=89978449" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">fascism</a>. And in the midst of all that, we’re being…gaslit. We’re told, increasingly, that to care about this…that’s the pathological thing. That’s the message, after all, of “climate change obsession is a mental disorder.” What’s “normal” is…indifference. Quite literally: “most of us can finally ignore Covid.” <a href="https://eand.co/the-revenge-of-the-age-of-the-idiot-20fd7cb51606">Website</a>