If memory serves you are not living in NA. It's not important other than perhaps some context can be offered being a resident of that part of the world.

In my opinion the decentralization that is propelling our Age will manifest in the unwinding of Empire and the centralized system of power that we have been under for some generations.

My feeling is that instead of the breakdown of the cities and the countries that manage them we will see a decentralization of that power and the rise of the city states.

We are already seeing plans for container sized nuclear power units here in Canada. Infrastructures that could be brought down to leave cities in darkness will be a thing of the past. Decentralized self sufficient city states shall rise into that void. Cheap unrestricted power shall allow hydroponic growing to feed the city's population.

The madness of societal decay will be more intense outside those cities; in the homesteads and less defensible communities of the rural zones.

If you look at some of the papers coming out of and around the WEF this vision seems to be shared. They speak of 15 minute cities surrounded by the vastness of untouched nature

My feeling is civilization is not about to collapse; but instead transform. Sadly this transformation shall leave vast swaths of the world's population in a lifestyle that appears that civilization has collapsed