“Collapse is not the end of the world; it’s the end of a system. A system that no longer serves us.” Sarah Wilson
Has capitalism served you? Or are you, like me, a wage slave, whose employer creams a surplus from my labour for profit? When Sarah Wilson describes herself as a “token left-wing feminist”, she’s not talking about being a revolutionary lefty; she’s talking about progressive capitalism.
Wilson, who has described herself as a “token left-wing feminist” during her previous newspaper career, shifted the magazine’s tone away from standard elite social circles toward a more inclusive approach. Talking about Cosmopolitan, where she was editor. SarahWilson.com
When you can frame the collapse of this civilisation as being outside of the climate and ecological collapse driving the collapse of our global and increasingly globalised food system, then it’s easy to miss the fact that the collapse of this Globalised civilisation is the end of the world as we know it and probably not the shell inside of which we can build the new one without calories.
Sarah Wilson’s 29 collapse-aware aphorisms to keep you sane offer us nothing to help us plan for collapse. Wilson is another “I don’t think stockpiling some essentials is helpful” while talking about all the amazing things we could be doing during collapse on zero calories.
Wilson, like many people talking in the collapse space now, uses the false equivalence fallacy to justify her position on stored calories over skills. This is the same argument that Bendell has used in Rainbow Prepping, and Manda Scott uses when talking about water storage over food storage. There are no comparisons between preparedness skills; storing calories is as important as storing water and as important as learning skills.
It seems the only skill Wilson is pushing is the right consciousness to “hold space”.
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