Sunday listen is #ProjectHailMary, and aside from being a wonderfully read SciFi book, it's also a kind of funny confirmation of my hypothesis, that bc a #VerdrÀngungsgesellschaft cannot face #collapse directly, it must engage with it by reading it through popular culture.

Take the collapse-timeline (spoiler!): from the start of the action to "large scale crop failure" & "mass dieoffs" it's barely 20 years, after 10 years, significant effects will already show.

THAT's the real collapse timeline, much more realistic than our climate discourse.

"I was looking out at a room of happy children, and some of them would literally die of starvation..."

Sci-Fi doing its classic trick where a 1 step verfremdung enables engagement with a shameful/avoided subject.

Also: this is a photorealistic depiction of social psychology in collapse.