Can't speak for others, but I think the worse kinds of reality are the ones we collectively cannot acknowledge -
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14322-rationally-speaking-we-are-all-apocalyptic-now
Lengthy but necessary and worth excepting -
"This "revelation" is simple: We've built a world based on the assumption that we will have endless energy to subsidize endless economic expansion, which was supposed to magically produce justice. That world is over, both in reality and in dreams. Either we begin to build a different world, or there will be no world capable of sustaining a large-scale human presence.
If that's not clear: When we take seriously what physics, chemistry and biology tell us about the health of the living world on which we depend, we all should be thinking apocalyptically. Look at any crucial measure of the ecosphere - groundwater depletion; topsoil loss; chemical contamination; increased toxicity in our own bodies; the number and size of "dead zones" in the oceans, accelerating extinction of species and reduction of biodiversity; and the ultimate game-changer of climate disruption - and ask a simple question: Where we are heading? Scientists these days are talking about tipping points and planetary boundaries, about how human activity is pushing the planet beyond its limits.
If we look honestly at the state of the world, it is difficult not to conclude that we are in end times of sorts - not the end of the physical world, but the end of the First-World way of living and the end of the systems on which that life is based."
Think not? Think again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/climate-change-blizzard-global-warming_n_2649587.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2013_nor%27easter
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