posted on 30 December 2018

by Reverse Engineer, Doomstead Diner

Published on the Doomstead Diner on December 30, 2018

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I had intended to make this update about the Energy results coming out of the survey, but this data is already too much to do a decent overview on in such a short time and I am going to put it off until I close the Survey. So I am focusing today on a smaller demographic area of the Survey, the Gender question and the Religion question.

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Before I do that though I want to express my Gratitude to the submitters who have made this survey the most statistically significant one I have ever done, surpassing even the Human Extinction Survey. These respondents come from 4 Collapse Websites primarily:

#1- Reddit r/collapse @ 139 Submissions

#2- The Burning Platform @ 92 Submissions

#3- Cassandra's Legacy @ 79 Submissions

#4- The Doomstead Diner @ 50 Submissions

Several other collapse websites submitted responses as well, but these were the only 4 in the double digits, to date. Total submissions now from all websites is over 400 now. REMEMBER THE 400! You will be one of those who were counted as the End of Industrial Civilization became apparent. This is a highly significant sample of the Collapse Blogosphere, I will write in more detail about that when I begin the full analysis of the survey, which is going to take quite some time to do. The survey remains OPEN at this time, you can still get your last minute Opinions in here before I take the tally and start to work on figuring out what (if anything) this all means.

First we have a BIG PROBLEM. We have a Gender and Religion Gap!

For today, I am just going to look at two curious Demographic results, concerning Gender and Religion. The Doughnut Charts are up at the top of the page for reference. (this snapshot taken a couple of days ago with respondents around 250. Percentages haven't changed significantly since) Up first, the Gender Gap.

Where have all the Females Gone?

In the demographic study, the Collapse Blogospere turns up 13% Females, 84% Males and 2% LGBTQ or Other, all self-identified descriptions of course. This percentage is actually remarkably consistent across all the surveys we have run across all websites, including the previous largest survey on Near Term Human Extinction.

On the Diner, I have often been blamed for the lack of female participants, because I am a self-identified and declared Monast, a Spiritually-driven Panentheist Hermit-Monk, Celibate now for the last 20 years. I have also fairly often been accused of Misogyny, which just isn't true. I don't hate women any more than I hate men, or LGBTQs either. In the words of Don Rickles, I hate them all equally. lol. It's also quite a stretch to believe I drive all the wimmen off of all the Collapse Websites just by showing up there. lol.

So WHY is it there are so few women-folk haunting the Collapse Blogosphere? There certainly are plenty-o-females on the net, you find them all over the cooking sites (which I haunt also of course, which you would suspect if you read my periodic SNAP Card Gourmet articles or the Diner Menu inside the Diner. I love cooking and among my many other professions I was a professional chef), and they are all over the permie sites and homesteading sites also. But NOT on the Doomer sites themselves. My basic answer to this question is that the Commentariat on Collapse websites is highly contentious, often enough it devolves into an all-out Bar Fight or Napalm Contest. Wimmen don't really like to engage in this sort of thing in general. At least not like the wimmen in the gif at right here. lol.

The other more deeply psychological reason I can come up with is that females simply don't like to contemplate TEOTWAWKI scenarios, hordes of rampaging Zombies, loading up their bras with Gold Coins to secure against Hyper-Inflation, etc. You would need a seriously good wire supported push-up bra for this task, maybe you should look for one on smile.amazon.com? Be sure to drop the Sustaining Universal Needs Foundation of Boiling Springs, SC as your designated Charity. But that is just a WAG anyhow, I have no numbers to back up that hypothesis. lol. If you have a good rationale for this Gender Gap in Collapse, please drop it in Inside the Diner and let me know what it is.

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Where have all the Muslims Gone?

They haven't all gone to graveyards yet, based on the number of beheadings and suicide bombings going on around the globe anyhow. Allahu Akbar!

To date, with well over 400 submissions from all over the world and several pretty popular Collapse Focused Websites weighing in, not one single believer in the Koran and Islam has weighed in here with an opinion. Yes that's right folks, a religion currently commanding the belief system of roughly 1.5B Homo Saps has ABSOLUTE ZERO representation in this survey!

According to a 2010 study and released January 2011, Islam has 1.5 billion adherents, making up over 22% of the world population.

Islam is also the world's fastest growing Religion and projected to take over the globe demographically by 2060

Now, even the Unitarian-Universalists, a totally microscopic religion I was born into drew in 3 submitters. Panentheism which I now subscribe to got two submitters, me and somebody else. I wasn't even sure anybody else even knew what Panentheism is and how it differs from Pantheism either! Apparently though, there is at least one other person out there who is another believer. Who is that guy (gal)?

The question remains though, WHY are there no Muslims contributing to this survey? Besides all the Muslims currently living in war torn contries being bombed back to the Stone Age by the FSoA who probably don't have internet access at the moment, there are still plenty-o-Muslims who have emmigrated to European Countries and the FSoA over the last 50 years or so.

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Global Religious Distribution

FSoA Religious Distribution

The Immigration Wave

Now, I'm not looking to fire up you xenophobes & racists out there (well, maybe I am. lol. good for the total numbers.) but the fact is there are many Muslims in the West with access to a computer and an internet connection, certainly a far greater number than the numbe of Unitarian-Universalists and Panentheists anyhow. So WTF don't they VOTE? Is it a violation of Sharia Law or something?

The reason for the Religion Gap is about as big a Mystery to me as the Gender Gap, so if any of you readers out there has some deeper insight into this, please post it up Inside the Diner for the Diners to chew on. It's a really deep topic and I am sure we can get a really good Bar Fight out of it. Just remember if you do drop in that we don't follow the Marquis de Queensbury rules inside the Diner, and I personally do not fight fair. I'm the fucking Admin. LOL.

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