This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For
The shock itself is shocking. Shouldn’t we have been more prepared? Hasn’t culture been drenched in catastrophe porn for decades? The bomb. The breakdown. The fallout. The senseless armies of shambling corpses, all the nightmares of dead generations sliding out of our screens. For more than a decade, young and young-ish people have been living in anticipatory grief for everything we know. But somehow, this is different. The idea of imminent annihilating catastrophe has been part of the collective unconscious for as long as we've had one. From the end…
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