Egregoros

It's gonna hurt for some time, yea

"Ah you think collapse is your ally? You merely adopted the collapse. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a society until I was already a man."

-- A man born in Brazil

Unfortunately:

"There's a lot of ruin left in a society."

Americans discovering the "collapse" is a permanent state of existence because its the permanent state of existence of brown societies, will be interesting.

A Fimblewinter, as the norse would call it.