I see what you’re saying—on a geological scale, this collapse is happening at breakneck speed. But from the perspective of an individual human life, it still unfolds in a way that feels gradual, almost imperceptible. That’s part of the problem. People expect disaster to arrive with a single, defining moment, but collapse doesn’t operate on the timeline of breaking news alerts.

Modern humans, as you point out, have a fractured sense of time. They live in the immediacy of seconds and minutes, detached from the long arcs of history or the slow-motion consequences of their actions. They’ve been conditioned to think that if something isn’t instant, it isn’t urgent.

But whether one sees this as slow or fast, the result is the same: we are living through it. And the real danger isn’t just the collapse itself—it’s the inability to recognize it for what it is.