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“There’s probably some phoneless fool sitting by a mountain waterfall somewhere who’s completely unaware of how worried he’s supposed to be.” - Duncan Trussel

History repeats itself because humans never learn the same lessons over and over again

Corruption is everywhere, we need to wake up

I just want to live in a stable home and be able to feed my 2 cats who I adore and love without elites and greedy landlords out to drive us all into the gutter. Repossession, renovictions and evictions are skyrocketing. I have lived good for many years but now I'm feeling the anxiety of what's happening and coming down the line.

When I was a kid I always remember people saying the end is near through the 80s 90s and 2000s. Once covid started I already knew with the whole plantet being pushed into chaos it was the beginning of the end. I pray for everyone to stay humble and have good hearts and to not let this chaos change you. Because it has changed billions for the worst.

I always said this. Just take electricity away and things will get serious very quick. Vice putting out a real one right here

The world has always been dangerous and gone through period of collapse. Danger doesn’t go away it just evolves.

Many civilizations have collapsed throughout history. This collapse is gonna be epic.

We don’t live in a democracy. Wealthy people and Corporations run this country. We the people need to take action before it’s to late.

We’re too far beyond repair. At this point, good luck everyone.

This was incredibly accurate. Everyone is playing politics but we need to be focused on sustainability. Water and food should be priority and figuring out what your plan for next year will be. 2023 is going to be extremely painful for us all.

The year wouldn't be complete without VICE and their annual apocalyptic short

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe” - Carl Sagan

I'm 57 years old,and what's really scary is that the 20 yr old generation thinks this is all normal. No that's scary

The most important thing in a society is integrity. We have largely lost that

Really what everyone should have learned from this pandemic is #1 self control/emotional regulstion #2 personal research,not depending on everything you see on tv #3 how important technology/innovation is to make sure we create a world that still supports us even in times of crisis or natural disaster. If you've only learned what you've seen on tv since covid then you've learned nothing.

COVID and shipping shortages let the world experience how SENSITIVE and “perfectly” balanced the world was to just live day by day.

As if 2020 was really the benchmark for our downward spiral. We are living the result of decades of negligence. I get that this video is focusing its scope on America, but its just too narrow of a perspective at this point. "Can we count on the government to save us?" Far too small in scope to hope that any one government can turn this kind of tide lol. This is a condition for humanity as a whole.

I can't say the world has gotten better since I was born in 1970. In some ways, yes. In some ways, it's far worse.

It's sad. We're living in the best period of human history possible. People from the past would literally kill to step foot into the 21st century. Simultaneously, we're living in the most fragile period of human history. *Everything* we know could collapse in our lifetimes, and that's a reality we have to accept.

The American powergrid has never been insulated from a Carrington type solar event from happening. If this did happen, and it happened around 150 years ago, it would destroy everything you possess with electronics and would take around 1.5 years to rebuild. Do you think the 1/100 of the people who own a pre 1980 vehicle that runs would be able to travel freely with them? The government has been well aware of this possibility and refuse to act to prevent it. It is not a catastrophe if it is intended to happen. The government you cherish doesn't cherish you.

Hunger is the only thing to make us feel a real apocalypse that’s when people change completely

Spot on vice, wish everyone could watch this. But then again 3/4 of people wouldn’t believe it.

And lessons learned from major natural disasters has taught us that civilization has a shelf life of about 24 hours. And what we saw with the pandemic was serious hording and price gouging because people saw vulnerabilities and exploitations and fear that they were determined to either profit from or screwed other people to make sure that they had way too much to run out of particular items like toilet paper and hand sanitizer.

The comment I made at the start of 2020 was “What if 2020 isn’t just a bad year but the start of a terrible decade?” Hahaha wow probably one of my best aged comments I’ve ever made.

The construction industry never stopped during the pandemic. No one recognizes that we kept working through it all. We are the forgotten essential work force.

I remember my dad would always say that a society is only nine missed away from total collapse. With covid, inflation, war on the horizon and environmental destruction... people are starting to get hungry.

I used to be an optimist... now I call myself a realist. I fear for the future generations and cannot stand to think of what they will think of us. "If they knew what was wrong, why didn't they stop it?" As individuals we feel as though there's nothing we can do, there is too much wrong in this system. "My vote doesn't make a difference." Nobody can do everything; but everyone can do something. It's time to stop squabbling over the details and agree that something is wrong, and it is systematic. Only together can we truly make a difference. Whichever race you come from, whatever political views you hold, no matter your job... you, your family, along with everybody else are not immune from the disasters we currently face as the human race. Corporations are not people, money is not free speech, and the people in the "owners club" do not care about us as long as we don't make waves and do what we're told. The "middle class" is a subjective fiction used to divide us. There is the working class and the owners. Roughly five people control more money than the half of the world combined. It is clear that there are powerful people that have pooled their resources and perfected a psycho-social, geo-political circus-like rat race for the working class. They sit back and collect interest and rest assured by the fact that, if needs be, they will be paying a portion of us (police and military) to kill or subdue the rest. That is if we ever manage to set aside our differences and demand systematic change. They have made it so you cannot go to college without going into debt that could follow you to the grave unless you join the military and become one of their pawns. National security is a facade that has been used to justify wars, entrap hopeless people suffering from poverty into making bad decisions that land them in prison, and keep secrets while billing the American people to pay for it all. The USD is at a 40-year low, but some people still think Trump was going to drain the swamp and save us. He was waiting for his second term, I guess. Wake Up!

I think most of us in the western world saw this coming but we collectively looked the other way, hoping it would go away. Also failing to recognize how fragile our bubbles are, is what made the reality check feel more shocking. We are to blame too.

Someone working full time making $20 an hour can’t afford a 1 bedroom apartment and a decent car let that sink in

The fact that this message took so long to reach me really says a lot about a lot of things.

I was there in Northern California during the red sky event. It truly felt like a apocalyptic world.

We’re doomed. Nobody wants to be the one to limit profits and work in humanities best interest. We’re literally all going to die so the 1% can be so wealthy that you can’t even spend it all if you tried. Our government is pathetic and full of apathetic criminals.

We need 40 minutes of this

Start preparing guys you’re going to going through it especially with the tech shift and money shift all happening too

2020 a year that changed our lives forever

We got to comfortable and it came back with vengeance. Honestly we as humans need to make huge changes soon. We need to take care of one another, pick up our trash, and live a good life.

the fact this video exists, is just a way for us to feel like they knew along with us the whole time.

Foreign investing has got to be one of the biggest reasons life in America is declining so rapidly. In my opinion, we shouldn't have as many foreign investors dipping their hands in so much of what we have. The ability to affect us or to control who comes here with their investments and what not. Like consider the ppl who buy up large developments, no one can stop them from sending over anyone they want to stay there for whatever reason. And we wouldn't know anything about them. We also have domestic sabotaging.

I watched a video recently about how human brain's capacity has shrunken over the last couple of millennia. One of the hypotheses is that our ancestors didn't need bigger brains anymore. The invention of a large-scale organisation /i.e., the civilisation/ allowed us to specialise in different fields of knowledge. If I understood it correctly, it suggests that a civilisation is more or less a bee hive, where every person plays their small part but hardly anyone knows what's happening around the nearest corner. No citizen understands fully what keeps such a society running - as that would be impossible to achieve. The society/nation/civilisation itself is a collective entity that runs kinda on its own. Put the brain size aside, the idea is interesting. The specialisation and the distribution of production and services among many individuals ("masters" in their particular bit of knowledge/experience) could indeed allow us to "artificially" create a much bigger social structure than the nature/evolution has ever produced before. However, it can - in my opinion - deteriorate in a blink of an (historian's) eye. A collectice structure like this seems tu function only as far as the individuals in it - all of them, from top to bottom - strive to secure their real needs, so the collective as a whole enters an equilibrium of sustainability. Kinda like the proverbial Perpetuum mobile, which propels itself forward by simply existing. It is not the same, but can be somewhat similar to how nature works for millions of year. The sad truth I believe is that this can't be achieved unless the whole human species decides to do this together. As long as there are outer disturbances (wars, raids, power struggles etc), you need to protect yourself from them, thus breaking the "neccessity threshold", thus creating a whole field for exploitation, .... and it goes on and on until one final day, it collapses under its own weight. Like radioactive nucleus. Or stars that grew too big. It always amazed me how the most stable things in the universe are the simplest ones. Strength tends to suffocate on itself.

You don't get to be in the top 1% through doing what's needed for the greater good of everyone else. You get there because your own desires are your #1 priority.

This is honestly scary im growing up in a time were our future is so fragile and unknown

Maybe Charlies Manson's vision of Helter skelter is right after all. 🤣

We've entered the age of alarmism and death cults.

A few years ago a friend told me that this world is a sinking ship and the end is very very near. At the time I felt it was a rather bleak and negative outlook. But more and more I think we need to just enjoy what we have now; because no matter what we do to plan for the future, it's not going to be coming for us. Maybe for the ultra-wealthy, but not for me or you.

It's every man for himself. Don't join any war, don't fight for anybody, just fight for yourself and your family. It's always a lost cause. Your society was designed to make you depend on that government, which destroys the humans fundamentally needed skill of self sustainability. Wars come in many form, it's not always guns it could be your fight for your basic human rights that they've managed to scribble down somewhere and call legal law. F that law

I always felt like we are living in the final days of the Roman Empire. It is all falling apart and the end is coming soon...

Every empire eventually gets stupid, blind, and falls. Pride comes before the fall and that's happening right now.

There have been decades of warnings and no actions! At least I can die happy knowing the wealthy cannot leave our planet with all their wealth.

Damn what a dramatic title, Vice

Every Empire in the history of this planet have risen and fallen time and time again, definitely looks like its happening again.

Candain Farmer here. The U.S.A. should teach urban farming in the curriculum. It's been taught in my reserve for at least 40 years. most young kids I know can run their own garden and most do in these times.

I'm thankfull I wasn't born is USA. When I see what's going on up there I appreciate being born in Poland while most of people think it's 3rd World up here but in fact it's relatively stable and peacefull. No guns, no drugs on streets. As woman I'm not afraid to go outside at 1am. I can wear makeup or short skirt and no one is going to brother me. Our biggest issue rn is just delusional poloticians and war on Ukraine which we all hope would stop

People constantly mistake the world “ending” for the world changing. Consult history. Cultures change. Technologies change. Empires change. The only difference between now and 500 years ago is the rate in which we expedite that change.

It doesn’t take much for society to fall and when it does fall, panic and violence takes over and then we are all well and truly fucked.

Most of us are expendable in the eyes of the government. Hopefully it isn't a shock to everyone who they let perish and who they keep to rebuild a sustainable future....

Did they say “best and brightest” and “government” together? One of the reason why we are having so much issues is because of the government decisions

One thing history teaches is that we don't learn from history.

It's obvious by now that our future is looking grimer by the day.

I say daily to people,that the world is falling apart.I believe in my heart that we will not last the next 25 years

Umair!!!!! I am looking very forward, if we make it that long, to watching this series. I am a long-time fan of economist Umair Haque and he has been writing about how terrifying the global catastrophic apocalypse we are going through. Honestly, I consider him more of a friend. Live your best life, one-day-at-a-time, and be a good person. Tomorrow is not promised.

It’s almost amazing that Vice is even allowed to do this.

The billionaires who built their fortunes fueling the collapse we have to live through ultimately know they’ll never have to suffer the consequences for the doomed future they brought down.

The rich have all ways like they are now, but the government has changed from protecting the people to themselves. That’s the real problem. That’s my two cents at least.

Eventually every civilization ends up dying off. I'm sure The Mayans had this same conversation amongst themselves. Maybe a 1000 years from now another yet to be named civilization will also have this same conversation?

These two civilizations have been at war over a political dispute for 500 years and now the battle has come to its peak. The nebula glitters with a thousand sparkles, like someone blew a pinch of gold dust into the air. Each sparkle, ten thousand lives extinguished. Zooming out you suddenly become aware that all of this is happening on a TV screen - an epic space opera playing out for someone’s entertainment. But the actors don’t know they’re actors. To them, this galactic war is as real as real gets.

Sitting in my shell of a house in 85 degree heat with no air conditioner in the wake of hurricane 🌀 Ian. I have to concur There was no government help with Ian . Barely any help.... No Salvation Army.. no Red Cross.. no FEMA YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN

What happened in Greece, Germany after ww1, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, etc. is happening to us. Inflation, unemployment, and food shortages is very real and the cause of many more bad things such as Nazism, Civil war, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, facism, etc.

What he says at 2:30 is completely on point.

The Age of "Generated" Catastrophe

Rent prices are our biggest problem and landlords are the worst vultures who contribute the least to society while extracting money from their tenants that they do not deserve.

"If the citizens of this country truly knew who was in charge of their money there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning " -unknown

Fear got us here. More fear will not save us...

being in SF on that red day was amazing... It was soooo quiet outside, and so dark. I was at Haight/Ashbury and people were out in awe. I felt a little panic in my bones cause it was hard to know how to feel enveloped by Nature like that.

I love how often the word "apocalypse" keeps coming up in news coverings these days. Oh what a bliss. Good luck to us all xD

Some good ol fear mongering while every one is already on edge

welp, that only lasted 300 years. imagine what Atlantis accomplished 12,000 years ago

if we were strong, we would not have such homelessness right now.

How many times in history have this happened and humanity, has still lived on, countries fall, empires fall

The whole world but most importantly the whole USA should watch this show all 4 full episodes...???

Well, as an older person here are some basic facts My wife and I have lived through. 1950's duck and cover, Serors. 1960's Chemicals in everything, free love, no morals, war, the pill. 1960's to 70's Viet Nam to get us out of a recession. 1971 Nixon taking us off the gold standard, gas lines, higher taxes, loss of families, welfare for everyone. 1980's take the money it is free, use social security for social welfare. Give the people I.O.U.'s. 1990's the birth rate is higher from single mom's married to the government. Higher taxes for houses, estates a paychecks. 2000's social warfare for everything, food cards, medical, taxes for paychecks, schools can't teach basic reading, writing, math. Blamed everyone and anyone for personal short comings, loss of belief in a higher power. Selfishness. People who use others to a mass large fortune's, drugs solve everything. Wonder why we are in should a mess?

THIS NEEDS TO BE A 2 HOUR SPECIAL…I YIELD MY TIME!

… and that’s the way the cookie crumbles

I thought 2020 was bad, how wrong I was

And just like that, preppers aren't so crazy.

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. Tyler Durden Fight Club

if all cellphones and internet went out the people would go crazy and people would go to the streets just over something so small

“The grim truth we’re all facing is that the civilization who has mentally and physically tortured you as a slave.. is collapsing and setting you free” WOW IM SO SCARED.

We all remember the show doomsday preppers and thought they were fucking crazy.. and some were. But all these years later I now have my own stash of food water and bullets for the end

When the poor get poorer and rich get richer, it’s just a matter of time. A reckoning is coming. Are you ready?

Watching the world crumble in real time is scary

Unity is how we prevail. This greed must be stopped. We have to stop allowing ourselves to be divided 🙏

All of my worst case scenarios predictions of the early 90's have manifested and I known since the morning of September 11th, 2001, that there would be no turning back.

I am more concerned of the supreme court taking a case on election. Decide whether state officials overturn any election without the input of the courts.

Thanks vice you rekindled all my phobias I've been managing since the beginning of covid, my shrink also thanks you.

The American decline started decades ago. It has only just become more evident in recent times as the decline accelerates. For a very long time in discussions and comments each generation always says their generation was better than the next and for years it was put to being biased and each generation thinks theirs is the best. But what is also true is that each generation thinks theirs is better than the next because it was and that trend is a tell tale sign of decline. In decline each previous generation IS better than the next. With the power of KZfaq, video sharing and open information, a growing number are now seeing it and the state of decline.

Face it. The grim dystopian future that will hurl us all into another dark age, predicted by so many sci‐fi movies since Blade Runner has come true.

This is a true time. Life is pain and prosper. There are enemies that seek greed, then there are the helpers. Who are you to become “comfortable”? A life without cuts is a life softly lived, and a life softly lived is a life hardly retold.

Thanks vice for reminding me how worried I should be. I forgot for a second there.