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A Psychologist Explains Why Billionaires Are Building Bunkers For The End Of Days
Many of the world’s richest seem to earnestly believe that some kind of apocalyptic “event” [3] is coming, and have prepared accordingly. You might have read about this before — such as in the New Yorker’s deep dive [4] back in January 2017 — but billionaire doomsday preppers are back in the news again thanks to a new viral article penned [5] by professor and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. In it, Rushkoff gives some insight on the grave manner in which some of the business elite are going about preparing for a doomsday, which he learned first-hand after receiving an invitation to speak with some one-percenters.
Rushkoff says that what was supposed to be a wholesome discussion about the “future of technology” quickly turned into a consulting session on an impending apocalypse.
As Rushkoff writes:
Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern. Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.
There is a lot of wealth in this world, and it is extremely unevenly distributed. According to a January Oxfam report [6], 82 percent of the wealth generated in 2017 went to one percent of the global population. While the fat-cats of Earth are still going about doing regular rich-guy things, it is also peculiar that so many of the one percent are spending so much time and money thinking about the apocalypse. Don’t they have better projects or companies to invest in? Is there something specific to rich dude psychology that is making them behave this way?
It’s worth noting that the fear of doomsday is not specific to the world’s financial elite. It appears in splashy headlines [7]. It is in the science fiction we read and watch [8]. Apocalypse anxiety seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, and some psychologists have their own theories as to why.
Clay Routledge, a researcher who studies existential anxiety and has conducted studies specifically about drivers of apocalyptic beliefs, tells Salon these apocalyptic fears can be motivated by a number of different variables — one big one being technology.
“There are, of course, some very real threats to worry about, but our always-connected digital world can heighten anxiety because it is a constant and chaotic stream of information, and is often negative, and specifically fear-focused,” he explained.
Furthermore, his research suggests that such anxieties could be linked to existential concerns and a search for meaning.
“Though we tend to think of the apocalypse as negative, the idea may counterintuitively be attractive to some,” he said. “In a world in which life feels uncertain and often unfair, in which people struggle to find a sense of personal purpose, the idea of an apocalyptic ending, though terrifying, can also feel meaningful.”
“This is obvious when we think about certain religious apocalyptic beliefs, but even among more secular types or those who do not believe in a particular religious apocalyptic narrative, apocalyptic ideas can be seductive,” Routledge added, noting that such beliefs could be a result of people dreaming of a “better world.”
“Some are attracted to these ideas because they would be tested and could find their true purpose, maybe even emerge as heroes or people of importance in a new world,” he said. “And some like to imagine the possibility of a simpler life, what might be almost a form of nostalgia.”
Nathalie Theodore, JD, LCSW, who is a psychotherapist in Chicago, said the rise in concerns about an apocalypse is likely a result of the anxiety felt from the country’s current political state.
“We don’t feel as settled, safe or secure in our everyday lives and, when this happens, our minds tend to wander to the worst case scenario—for example, the apocalypse,” Theodore told Salon. “Because we don’t feel entirely safe in our environment, we imagine doomsday scenarios in which we have no control over our surroundings, and the world around us is falling apart.”
Mike Salas, a life and professional counselor based in Texas, said he has seen a rise in clients who have fear and anxiety about the end times since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“Where people are just in a very vulnerable place — not apocalyptic, but [not knowing] what to expect from our current governmental state,” he explained. “There are people that are worried [the state of politics] could lead to nuclear war and also the end of our democratic state, and I have a lot of clients who are fearful of that.”
Salas added that specifically his minority clients are anxious.
“There is a lot of anxiety about loss of rights and change in social structure,” he explained.
As to why, Salas explained he believes it has to do with the lack of abundance in the world.
“The theory I have on it is kind of based in scarcity,” he said. “It’s as if people feel like there isn’t enough of anything for all of us, and as if there isn’t enough equality to go around.”
Salas said he does have wealthy clients—but they appear to be anxious for other reasons.
“A lot of people I see are wealthy and conservative and many of them believe we’re on the right path with this president, and that liberals aren’t understanding of it,” he said. “When I hear the anxiety from these clients, it is about heading to the extreme left.”
16 Comments on "A Psychologist Explains Why Billionaires Are Building Bunkers For The End Of Days"
makati1 on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 6:17 pm
““We don’t feel as settled, safe or secure in our everyday lives…”
It’s about time America gets to taste the same fears, uncertainty and chaos that they have been causing all over the globe for the last 100+ years. Payback is a nasty bitch and she is coming home to America. Do you have a “bunker” to hide in? LMAO
twocats on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 6:51 pm
the 2008 GFC had more to do with sense of doom than the current situation. the current situation is just a fuller manifestation of that fear (from the left standpoint). Obama was that manifestation from the right.
Walking Dead first aired in 2010.
Tea Party formed 2009.
Arab Spring 2010.
Occupy Wall Street 2011.
the global system “survived” but millions of individuals within it were traumatized – and, having partially recovered, have looked around for answers and justice. Even the MAGA dipshits, et al., intuitively they know the system is rigged and wrong. They can’t see any real way to change it – so they submarine the whole thing with vengeance.
could give a fuck why billionaires are anxious. I hope they OD on their Qs.
TIKIMAN on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 8:13 pm
Thank GOD Donald Trump is in the White House. As long as he’s there the economy will avoid collapse. If the lying murdering witch and her serial rapist of a husband were there it would be a disaster.
GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP!
USA is a shithole country on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 8:56 pm
Hey tikiman, I hope MS 13 shaves your head and fucks you with a broom stick
Sissyfuss on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 10:11 pm
Tiki, Trump is in the process of destroying every last vestige of government for the people. His theatrics are a shiny object for the sheeple while the 1% empty the larders of anything of value. Not saying Hillary the malevolent would have been any better but she would had to work real hard to replicate the damage now being done. Late stage Capitalism meets the sixth Mass Extinction. Brought to you by Wells Fargo.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 10:17 pm
Post collapse I will just tell the rich white man NO..One time..And then watch him stroke out while I breed his daughters..I am going to have more kids than Stanford!
boney joe on Mon, 22nd Oct 2018 11:28 pm
Politics Podcast: What On Earth Should We Make Of The Democrats’ Huge Fundraising Edge?
House Democratic nominees are outraising Republicans in individual contributions by about two-to-one. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew debates how to make sense of a fundraising advantage that has no recent precedent.
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boney joe on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 12:02 am
twocats:
Most insightful analysis.
USA:
I’m hoping the same, friend.
Sissyfuss:
Just for posterity, try and get it all wrong for once.
boney joe on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 12:24 am
ASSOCIATED PRESS October 18, 2018
(NEW YORK) — Another building is stripping Trump off its entrance.
Residents of Trump Place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan have joined three other buildings in the neighborhood in stripping the president’s brassy five-letter name from their 46-story building in another sign that Trump name has become toxic.
The move follows on the heels of losses at President Donald Trump’s golf courses, and decisions by several hotels that had licensed the president’s name to drop it.
This far, fourteen properties have elected to jettison the Trump name for good, and more are on the way.
After more than a quarter century, Trump Plaza will now be known only by its address, 200 Riverside Boulevard.
Antius on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 1:10 am
“Post collapse I will just tell the rich white man NO..One time..And then watch him stroke out while I breed his daughters..I am going to have more kids than Stanford!”
Mob / Millimind / Whatever pseudonym he wishes to hide behind; is an invaluable window into the Jew mind. A creep who buries himself in collapse fantasies, so he can knock white man down a few pegs and rape his daughters.
Our mistake was assuming that these people think like us and allowing them to pretend to be us, building businesses, taking control of key institutions, gradually undermining white man from within. The Jews are a permanent fifth column.
The the Jew has that we lack, is not so much specific intelligence or technological prowess; but an endless supply of patience and determination; bent towards two equally grim ends – their enrichment and your destruction. The civilisation wrecking heathen Left, is their child. They created it and nurtured it from the beginning. It is the embodiment of their spite and cruelty; their unending hatred of western man.
Antius on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 1:23 am
“After more than a quarter century, Trump Plaza will now be known only by its address, 200 Riverside Boulevard.”
Boney Joe. While great men build nations, small men (and embittered freaks) pour their efforts into knocking them down. In a sane society your mental illness would be treated for what it is.
Unfortunately for you and the rest of us, Jew boys like Soros find you to be a useful idiot, so you never receive the treatment that you need. SSRIs and Valium, followed by a good dose of lithium to dispel all those psychotic delusions. After which you will be respectful, compliant and appreciative. The way a woman should be 🙂
Cloggie on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 1:34 am
The Jew has that we lack, is not so much specific intelligence or technological prowess; but an endless supply of patience and determination; bent towards two equally grim ends – their enrichment and your destruction. The civilisation wrecking heathen Left, is their child. They created it and nurtured it from the beginning. It is the embodiment of their spite and cruelty; their unending hatred of western man.
Average Jewish verbal IQ is 115, white IQ is 100. That’s a dramatic difference, that is hardly compensated by our far greater numbers. If you overlay two normal distributions, centered around 100 and 115 resp, you will verify that our numbers in the upper 130+ range isn’t that much higher than theirs (US context).
Add to that their self-organizing “Chosen People” idea, an idea Aryans don’t have, which leads them to think 24/7 about the means how they can get us under control, which leads them to concentrate on media (owning our brains), finance (with which they can buy up politics), law, academia and always pander to “the weak” in society, which they intend to use to overthrow the upper classes and in the context of the 21st century “the weak” means the endless masses of the third world and the upper classes whitey, they intend to use against us, in order to get us destroyed.
Is it going to work?
No.
The Russian and Chinese elites, the Muslims know who is running the show in America. And in the West everybody has an internet connection and the smartest are at least familiar with the theory of kosher control of the US. The internet is the most effective counter-weapon imaginable against the MSM. DJT knows it. People like Orban and Salvini openly refer to it, albeit in veiled language. Soros has no access to Hungary or Russia.
What is really going to happen is that the koshers are going to lose their last powerbase, in a maelstrom of violence, where earlier they lost Europe, thanks the actions of the Austrian between 1942-1944…
http://www.skibbereeneagle.ie/web/wp-content/uploads/blogger/-MPpo0gCA76g/UkiFEDj9RII/AAAAAAAAXlo/1qgqc77LTrI/s1600/arbeit.jpg
…and Stalin after WW2, when he opted for an anti-globalist path and national-Bolshevism (“communism in one country”), after he had won the battle against Wallstreet’s darling Trotsky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
Now we are bracing for the third and final act, North-America, which will end this century:
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine-ebook/dp/B005646E32/ref=sr_1_1
boney joe on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 2:31 am
Anti-anus:
“While great men (Trump) build nations, small men (and embittered freaks) pour their efforts into knocking them down.”
Makes perfect sense. I see the parallels between Trump the great nation builder and his rejection by the citizens of his nation building via removal of any association with the Trump name.
Kind of like Trump announcing to the United Nations assembly that he is the greatest president ever and for the first and only time a US president’s remarks were met with laughter and ridicule. Even Dump’s former UN representative Niki Halley wisely resigned in order to salvage what’s left of her reputation.
Most “logical” pseudo-intellectual crap-LOL. Do you have any inkling just how pathetic and rediculous you appear? The embarrassment and shame….
You’re a sad little clown :(/
Antius on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 4:18 am
Jeepers Boney Joe! How about some salt and pepper for that chip on your shoulder?
A man who is evidently trying his hardest to destroy the liberal Marxist experiment is bound to upset a lot of people that do not identify with what he is trying to do, just as he has clearly upset you. Tough luck. Grow up and stop blaming others for your problems. Take some responsibility for how your life has turned out. Crank politics is not going to help whatever issues you have in your private life, nor is getting shirty with anyone that happens to raise a contrary opinion. Whether the next president is Democrat or Republican, your life will be no less miserable and empty.
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 23rd Oct 2018 6:53 am
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ TAKE MY ENERGY, MIGRANT CARAVAN! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Cloggie on Wed, 24th Oct 2018 2:49 pm
May gaining stature within Tory party, soft Brexit more likely:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6310541/May-faces-trial-MPs-leaked-papers-suggest-Brexit-limbo-long-running.html
“’It wasn’t a lion’s den, it was more like a petting zoo’: Theresa May SURVIVES her ‘show trial’ with Tory rebels over Brexit after making ‘heartfelt’ address to her backbenchers”
Public low about Brexit:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6311795/Poll-shows-collapse-confidence-Theresa-Mays-ability-negotiate-Brexit.html
“Poll shows a collapse in confidence in Theresa May’s ability to negotiate a good Brexit deal as nearly half of Brits think they will be worse off after exit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6312657/Treasury-official-says-Brexit-dividend-WIPED-economic-losses.html
“Nobody knows if there will be a Brexit dividend and it could be WIPED OUT by economic losses, top official at the Treasury warns despite promises to spend it on the NHS”
Bregret?