To me, it has felt that a vague apocalyptic feeling, or at least a millenarian one, has seemed to be everywhere, not just among the super-rich. It has right- a

To me, it has felt that a vague apocalyptic feeling, or at least a millenarian one, has seemed to be everywhere, not just among the super-rich. It has right- and left- variants. Mostly it leans right. The climate versions lean "left", though honestly I think the interest comes from more center-left/Davos places than from far-left/purple-haired places. Which means that, as a grassroots thing, it's more "right-wing". (There's some interesting crossover in the vaguely hippy / Peak Oil / Stewart Brand / permie space, though this skews older.) But is this feeling growing or shrinking? "SHTF" peaked in 2012: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=SHTF https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S... Prior to COVID, "prepping" peaked in 2017, before seeing renewed interest, spiking in 2020, though we're now back down to 2015 levels in the psychologically-"post-COVID" era. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=prepping https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p... "Peak oil" has been going down since 2005: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=peak%20oil https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p... "Doomer" peaked in 2020 and is trending down: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=doomer https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d... "Recession" is tricky. It's actually down, though trending up with the rate increases: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=recession https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r... The "firearms" topic is pretty flat: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F034qg https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... "Bunker" spiked in 2020. That spike is now over, though the baseline has been trending up: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0mys3 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... "Climate change" is apparently a somewhat passe topic (who knew?), peaking in 2007 (that actually isn't great; it means people got tired of it before anything was done): https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0d063v https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... Weirdly, "inflation" only started to really see interest last year: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F09jx2 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... So the general population might not actually be as worried as particular corners of the internet are...