Five Stages of Collapse (6)

In his book called The Five Stages of Collapse, Dimitry Orlov suggests that lack of personal virtual could be disastrous during a time of social collapse.

Personal virtues are all but destroyed in Western society, but for the time being their absence is being masked by the impersonal institutions of finance, commerce and government. In the wake of financial, commercial, political and social collapse will we become ruthless and vicious?

The civilized world is a cold world. Its citizens are theoretically expected to fend for themselves, but in reality, they can only survive thanks to the impersonal services of finance, commerce and government. What will happen to us once these impersonalised services are longer available? Will we have our humanity to fall back on, or will we go the way of ruthlessness and viciousness (229).

Good question.