(Anecdotal) Evidence for % people transition process stage 1 i.e. "something really wrong, our civilization is broken at foundations"

[rufuspollock]

How large are the set of people at the various stages of the "process of transition" from old paradigm to the new?

Context: see e.g. overview of strategy in https://lifeitself.org/blog/2022/02/01/cultivating-an-emerging-paradigm

Viral instagram post - 2 Oct 2023

~400k likes

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx5UxWNOcex/

Guy poses the question: “So is everyone else’s friend group talking about buying some land and having a homestead together where everyone grows separate crops, [where] we can all help each other out and have a supportive community, because our society that we live in feels like it’s crumbling beneath our feet?”

2021 survey by Jean Jaures

Majority of population in some western countries agreed with statement:

"some people think that civilization as we know it will collapse in the coming years, do you agree or disagree"

NB: survey was done in autumn 2019 before covid with a reasonably sized sample

Original report PDF - source https://www.jean-jaures.org/wp-content/uploads/drupal_fjj/redac/commun/productions/2020/1002/enquete_collapso.pdf