I think cultivating an apocalyptic idea is probably also caused by the habit of thinking in polarities, in either-or terms, right-left, black-and-white. Possibly because of the extremes already present in the respective Poles: extreme prosperity and consumption surplus against extreme simplicity and little materialism (or poverty, whereby the really poor are not the simple farmers, but the inhabitants of the urban slums).
The picture that you have published and that shows full supermarket shelves generates rejection and reluctance in me. This gluttony and exaggerated selection is then no longer a gift, but a burden. I need to know a lot of things, I'm spoilt for choice, etc. That's what trouble does to me. When I am angry, I, for my part, tend to exaggerate and impulse. This results in a counter-movement of a mental nature and I then wished all that stuff to the devil (just an apocalyptic cleansing of what was not necessary).
The films reflect this longing for a tabula rasa, a new beginning. I think it has to do with a cleansing - spiritually.
Regarding apocalyptic states that have already occurred, the horror stories can, unfortunately, be heard predominantly. However, there must have been many people who demonstrated greatness, compassion, and inventiveness in the destroyed German cities after the Second World War, for example. It is an art to pass on these stories, to keep them and to call them factual reports.
So, I am not answering your question but ask instead of those stories of survival and courage.
My mom was imprisoned in a Russian camp and spent there almost ten years of her life with her family. None of them had died and she once told me that her father was the most reliable person during that times. He even made it out of his own camp to join his children and wife as they got separated in the beginning. My mother, who was a courageous woman, refused working the woods any longer and told the commander that she and her sister had wanted another work. She risked, of course, her life and probably if her parents would have witnessed her, they would have told her to shut her mouth. But she got lucky and worked from then on in the laundry which also sucked but was better than to cut and carry the heavy woods while outside it was below 30 degrees Celsius.
It took my family another twenty years to get released from Russia but we made it finally to Germany at the beginning of the 70s. If you would ask those generations they for sure would say that that were apocalyptic times.
I find refuge in that stories and would love to hear similar ones. What about you?
Anyway, the questions you asked raised these thoughts of mine and I thank you for that. :)