A lot of people seem to assume that these are the end times—because of encroaching fascism, or accelerating climate change, or the fascists’ determination to not only deny climate change but actively abet it. We find it hard to envision any future at all, let alone a better one. It’s easy to forget that everyone felt the same way in the misremember... See more

We love to talk about the death of this and the fall of that, and to boast that we are there to witness it. We do like to feel special.