I'm fairly certain the world is on fire and no one is really looking, or maybe everyone is looking all at once and is frozen in the slow horror of witnessing an extinction level event and that fact setting in at an instinctual level. A primordial knowledge of the end of this iteration of life. The complimentary realization that you were born into the failing mechanism near the end of it's service life and were always destined to be powerless to alter this trajectory.