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The day the world didn't end
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The end of the world used to be quite seductive to her,
until she considered that the obsession with the apocalypse is actually a longing that those who are dissatisfied with the world have for something different.
until she considered that the obsession with the apocalypse is actually a longing that those who are dissatisfied with the world have for something different.
Allegra Preuss • The Water in the Wood
If the apocalypse already happened,
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
then the talk of the end of the world is a distraction from the world that already ended.
Allegra Preuss • The Water in the Wood
***seeking a vibe at the end of the world***
i wanted to start this by saying that “i’ve been thinking about the end of the world lately” but it's hard to make that sound not… dramatic. pretentious. but it is true (though not the ‘lately’ bit). i've been here a long time. not so much thinking about the fact of the world ending, but the period leadin
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Dorian Lynskeytheguardian.comSometimes, the end seemed near. Others it would recede. But over the years, I began to see it wasn’t the end that was close. It was our dread of it. The apocalypse wasn’t coming: it was always with us. It arrived in a stampede of our fears, be they nuclear or biological, religious or technological.