There are shitloads of people in the United States who are afraid the UN is going to take over the country. The globalists have taken over the government of the United States over the last few decades. Their takeover, however, was done by a pile of paper and calling people names and bribing and blackmailing total dirtbag politicians. The UN is really pretty feeble. The federal government of the US is actually pretty feeble too, compared to the entire population. (go watch the Welcome to the Rice Fields video on YouTube for the meme) The corporations are feeble too. A few bulldozers and an excavator or two could knock out any of the silicon valley companies.
People like Doom Porn though--weirdly they like the idea of being helpless and swept along in a tide. I was a fan of financial world doom porn for several years after the 2008 crisis. I think a major component of the attraction is the sense that you are one of the ~few~ people in the know, even though maybe hundreds of thousands of people read the same stories and watch the same crappy YouTube videos over and over again. Eventually I got tired of the same shit over and over again. I also realized precious metals is basically a racket. In the real world, nobody uses them. Similarly, in the real world, nobody uses bitcoin. You can find maybe a hundred people in a metro area of millions willing to trade their goods for bitcoin.
The doom porn makes people's lives feel more significant for some reason. The idea that we're at the end of days is eternally appealing. Next time you get that feeling, look out the window at some sparrow blithely going about his day. The sparrow has a better sense of what's real than you do.
It's pretty interesting that the sense of doom is prevalent when we're ostensibly the most prosperous. Maybe the system itself promotes the doom porn to keep people on the hamster wheel, sucking down cheetos and beer, and watching escapist garbage on TV.
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