No, because the world isn’t falling apart, you are just becoming more aware of the world.

Don’t worry, things have been falling apart since at least the beginning of written history, and most certainly longer. At the same time, wonderful things have also been happening during all that time.

Just make sure you take good care of yourself and of the people around you.

The world has been falling apart for a while. It’s just more visible when we’re connected. If anything, recent extreme political rhetoric in some areas might drive more people into cults (looking at you, MAGA-types)

A few people here have pointed this out already, but people have thought the End was pretty Nigh for about as long as we’ve been thinking about things.

Other people are countering this point by saying, ‘Ah, but this time it’s real!’ which doesn’t prove anything. People thought it was real all those previous times (the ecological collapse on Easter Island, or the Bronze Age collapse, or the Roman Civil Wars, or the Black Death, or the French Revolution or the Cold War etc.) and not many of them killed themselves or joined suicide cults, so why would people act differently now?

This isn’t to be pollyannaish about things. All the examples I gave above really did kill huge numbers of people and the Cold War in particular really could’ve caused the collapse of modern civilisation (if a nuclear war had broken out). Climate change, war and resurgent fascism are truly huge problems. I just don’t think the particular example of suicide cults is a very likely development.

I should start a cult.

I think some deathcults where the whole point is “live to 50, throw a massive party for the cult and go on a month long vacation, then kill yourself” might get some members. But they won’t really be that influential.

Most likely will be the rise of the “work the least possible, care the least possible” culture. China already saw it happen, it was called “Lying flat”.

Millenarianism doesn’t tend to have an association with famines or anything like that. It’s usually closer to a feeling of alienation and disruption of social contracts that drives it. Was very common during colonialism due to that reason.

I think climate change will probably cause some of this sort of thing. A decade might be too soon, but might not be, either.

We’re already breaking suicide records:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/health/suicide-deaths-record-high-2022/index.html

For the cult part, on one hand probably yeah because cults prey on vulnerable people.
But also the religious/psuedoscience aspect(s) might prevent some people from being interested and without that it’d likely veer more towards being classified as a gang/criminal-org. So it probably won’t be dramatic.

I would say it could be more like a tribe or something similar, but with communities eroded away as they are now I doubt that will work out on a meaningful scale. From the difficulty of being able to provide food and housing (and that’s now, before things get really bad) to people who might not be able to “pull their weight” or just general distrust of people on top of other issues like location and transportation.

Any half-decent option will probably spring up organically from people who have some connection already. I’m sure there are plenty of people now who don’t have much of anything tying them down but there is neither a destination nor a community or means to get to one. With no information/contact, nothing about that will probably change especially when you think about actual chances things will work out as desired.

Preventable deaths will likely be the more dramatic rise, especially related to heat and natural disasters.

Yes. Definatly. Not necessarily because of the world going one way or another but because our global population is rapidly increasing. 1 decade is enough to increase the global population by 1 billion people.

It’s sad how easily this generation is taken in by mass propaganda. We laughed at the propaganda when it started, but then it worked it’s way into the school system and kids have been indoctrinated into it for 20+ years.

Look at the “solutions” to the “end of the world” scenarios. They all involve giving up your freedom and wealth and giving the governments more money and more power.

They took critical thinking out of the schools and it has left an entire generation unable to think for itself and more than happy to let those in control maintain their power over them.

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No, because it gives suicidal folks a purpose. People don’t tend to kill themselves, only because things are hard. It’s much more vile when things are the slightest bit uncomfortable, but you don’t know why you should endure that. And when the world does actually fall apart, they can become politically active or help out in their local community.

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