The people preaching the end of the world are the ones buying and owning most of it.
This cluster maps ideologies that take civilisational collapse as given and build a power or identity project on top of it. The apocalypse as premise. The bunker as conclusion.
The question this cluster asks: who benefits from the end of the world being inevitable?
Terms in this cluster
e-acc (Effective Accelerationism)
Accelerate everything. Safety concerns are obstacles. The faster we go, the better the outcome. Probably.
Seasteading
Build a platform in international waters where regulations do not apply. Funded by Peter Thiel. No seastead yet exists.
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Bunkers in New Zealand. Private airstrips. The collapse as a logistics problem, not a political failure.
Dark MAGA
The aesthetic subculture that started as irony. Then the irony became earnest. Then people stopped taking off the costume.
Disaster Nationalism
Using genuine crises to consolidate nationalist power. The disaster as resource, not problem.
Pro-natalism
Demographics as ideology. Have more children — the right children. Civilisation depends on it.
Millenarianism
End-times thinking as political-religious structure. The corrupt present, the catastrophic transition, the chosen community. Every era has its version.
Prepperism
Survival as identity project. The stockpile as statement. The collapse that never quite arrives.
Endtime Fascism
Fascism legitimised by eschatological urgency. The situation is so dire that ordinary limits no longer apply.
Armageddon Complex
Apocalyptic belief that justifies power accumulation. The emergency is real. It is also convenient.