>"collapse is coming" vs "collapse is here"
We're in a superposition of these two stances, Schrödinger's Collapse. It's true that many of the essential institutions of society are failing or have completely failed, but one part persists, and it may be the most important part: the Illusion. Most people don't think we have collapsed, in fact normies probably don't even think we will, that any current nastiness can be overturned by one good President or something. A lot of society's ability to function comes from people's continued belief in it; people will obey laws they think can be enforced even if they actually can't. When the other shoe drops and it becomes apparent to everyone just how incompetent, impotent, and evil our governments trily are, that's when we'll see real chaos. And that actually might be totally avoidable, Post-WWI Germany never stopped holding elections through Weimar, several attempted coups, and the evential rise of NSDAP.

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 Show a 1920s American what 2020s America looks like and they might just blow their own brains out. 

 I fully agree. The recovery can't begin until the average person recognises that the collapse is here. Until they do that any attempt at rebuilding looks like dangerous anarchy. 

 People want some big flashy thing that unfolds in a matter of days. Truth is that collapses are slow, ugly affairs that can happen over years, decades, in the case of Rome centuries.

Historians will look at this and argue about when the collapse started. 

 weimar germany didn't have infinite niggers 

 South Africa is still collapsing. Takes a long time to ruin white civilization.