i just watched collapse, the movie. it took me this long, like 9 years, and now the subject is dead, a suicide. i read crossing the rubicon in 2001 and it really hit me. i felt like somebody was talking about the fundamental disconnect in the way we're living on this planet, and the lies that keep degrading it, and us. and then his life fell apart and he ended up in a borrowed trailer in california where he shot himself in the head. 
i think he really did see through the facade, and he saw the futility of seeing, and acting, he cared, he despaired, he lost the will to fight a losing fight. 
the collapse is, sure as the endless war, still happening.