The End of This Civilization is Something We Should Work Toward

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Ian Hughes

Abstract

This commentary addresses Jon Mills’s central question in End of the World and argues that our malaise’s roots lie deep in individual psychopathology and the pathological structure of the social institutions that make up our society. It reasons that we should work to confront the crises of our civilization and briefly describes the author’s framing of how this may be achieved.

Keywords:

climate catastrophe, dangerous leadership, Donald Trump, End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate, global transformation, Jon Mills, malignant narcissism, psychohistory, psychopathology, societal transformation

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About the author

Ian Hughes

Ian Hughes, PhD, is author of Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities are Destroying Democracy (2018) and a Senior Research Fellow at the MaREI Centre at University College Cork, Ireland. He can be contacted at .

How to cite this article

Hughes, I. (2026). The end of this civilization is something we should work toward. Clio’s Psyche, 33(2), 207-213.

https://doi.org/10.70763/93129bca9fb2d3cb3470e2b9cfde7f63