The Voices of Collapse Denialism

image by AI; my own prompt In a time of growing chaos, precarity, scarcity, anger, obscene inequality, economic and ecological decline, and untold war-mongering, fear-mongering and suffering, when we’re fed a firehose diet of context-free soundbites, incompetent ‘leader’ hysterics and histrionics, and unsupported, outraged opinion masquerading as journalism, it’s probably not surprising that a lot of people will glom on to anyone and anything that says the future will be (or can be) bright and wonderful (“if only we all…”). Even if that positivism is utter nonsense. I wrote a song satirizing that kind of thinking called Everything Is Fine. In his most recent lead article in Harper’s, Pankaj Mishra cries foul on the denialists. He writes about the demise of the preposterous predictions about “the end of history: a place homogenized by [White Empire] where capitalism coexisted peaceably with liberal-democratic institutions”: Now, as the ‘end of history’ itself comes to an appalling…