You are absolutely correct!

Here’s my story… the dominant euro-centric worldview that was born during the Enlightenment grew into a behemoth that only knew how to devour. It’s dead now. Not sure what killed it, but I’m fairly certain it’s dead. What we are seeing now is its rotting corpse. We’re breathing in its toxic fumes and rightly despair because the thing we used to be most certain of, the power of the behemoth, is no longer true.

But in the wake of death there is new life. Older life has passed on, which is most unfortunate, but new life takes its place. It may look strange, barely alive, even alien. The fungi and the carrion scavengers will eat their fill of the behemoth and when the corpse has been scoured clean, they too will fade away. Something else new will take their place.

Where are the humans in this metaphor? All over it. Many of us are the scavengers feasting. Some of us are the fungi, also eating but also understanding and communicating as only mycelium networks can.

It’s a terrible thing to watch a civilization die. But humans have survived collapses such as these in the past. The best that we can hope for is that we aren’t forced to create new stories and myths in a vacuum. Hopefully some shred of cautionary truth will be preserved.