I’m going to explain to you how the world ends.
The first step is heavy levels of well-intentioned deception about the end of it all. We will be led to expect something grandiose, something distracting. Something sexy. Think: melting polar icecaps that flood the earth or nuclear explosions that only leave beetles and microorganisms behind.
While we are distracted by portraits of the immanent and dire tomorrow, the world begins to end.
We will know that the world has begun to end, when our nightmares have cloaked themselves as immutable reality. There are a few signs: a hundred thousand dollar automobiles will roll past penniless beggars and no one will protest. People will use technology to self hypnotize for hours a day. Perpetual war zones will gently speckle the globe.
Eventually, the imagination will start to fade away. Humans will be charmed by the concept, but for some reason, fail to engage it.
Then, things will come full circle. With no imagination left, the grandiose nightmares of an apocalyptic tomorrow, refresh themselves as today’s neutral reality.
That is how the world ends.
The first step is heavy levels of well-intentioned deception about the end of it all. We will be led to expect something grandiose, something distracting. Something sexy. Think: melting polar icecaps that flood the earth or nuclear explosions that only leave beetles and microorganisms behind.
While we are distracted by portraits of the immanent and dire tomorrow, the world begins to end.
We will know that the world has begun to end, when our nightmares have cloaked themselves as immutable reality. There are a few signs: a hundred thousand dollar automobiles will roll past penniless beggars and no one will protest. People will use technology to self hypnotize for hours a day. Perpetual war zones will gently speckle the globe.
Eventually, the imagination will start to fade away. Humans will be charmed by the concept, but for some reason, fail to engage it.
Then, things will come full circle. With no imagination left, the grandiose nightmares of an apocalyptic tomorrow, refresh themselves as today’s neutral reality.
That is how the world ends.
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