Connor BeatonFound of ManTalks | Empowering Men to Build Better Lives, Relationships, and Minds

Collapse Is The Beginning Of Renewal

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview segment, Connor Beaton asks the guest to describe how they perceive the current "troubled times" before discussing possible transformations. The guest (Speaker B) characterises the present moment as a global period in which nature is "rattling" and culture is "unraveling," indicating a systemic crisis that spans ecological, social, and cultural domains. They argue that this crisis is not merely destructive; it is also the seed of creation, a phase where collapse and renewal coexist. Drawing on mythological language, the guest frames the situation as the end of an era or worldview rather than the literal end of the world, suggesting that the world’s ending is metaphorical and that a new creative energy is already emerging. The overall message is that we are witnessing a transformative epoch where destruction and regeneration are intertwined, and the focus should be on the renewal that follows collapse.

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from your perspective, how you view the troubled times that we are in before talking about what transformation can look like.
We're living in a time when nature is rattling while culture is unraveling. And so that makes me consider that we're in something, a period of change that involves the entire world at all levels. We are in the midst of creation right now. And creation involves both collapse and renewal. And so that's another way to understand what's going on in the world, that we're in one of these big periods of collapse. But the energy, the recreative energy of the world is also beginning the renewal of the world. So to me, and mythologically speaking, the world can come to an end. Yeah. That's not the thing to be worried about. We're at the end of an era, we're at the end of a worldview, but we're not at the end of the world.