Collapsitarianism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Collapsitarianism is a noun meaning Desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.
Meaning
Desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.
Example Sentences
The Southern Reach books imaginatively figure this contact. The beauty of the books is that they let the other side win. They offer a collapsitarianism in reverse.
To its adherents, collapsitarianism suggests a giddy liberation from hope, from futile shoring up of ailing economies like Detroit’s and the Sunbelt’s, from bailouts and stimulus plans and climate change and toxic-asset recovery.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include collapsitarian, ruinism, possibilism, countercapitalism, agorism, conspiratorialism.
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