We seem to be staggering towards the abyss. Like in a Roger Corman horror movie, we hear ghostly voices predicting that the end is near. We must fall into it. The signs of doom are everywhere, but since punishment for our sins is the object of our training, we will have to swallow our punishment and endure many hardships before the final fall.
Donald Trump is the beast of this apocalypse. His evil number in the Electoral College is 270, not 666. He is roughly tied with President Biden in the polls, but those who hate him the most are convinced he will return to the presidency in 2024, because he is an ungrateful human being and the electorate deserves to be tied to him.
Trump is a world destroyer. He will definitely destroy democracy. How? He will reportedly unleash the FBI on his political opponents and prosecute them as common criminals. That must be admitted. largely I’ve never heard of it.
Trump is a dictator who is trying to destroy the constitutional government of the United States. Shortly after, he will move the White House to the Mar-a-Lago golf course and appoint bearded reality TV characters to his cabinet.
But what is his destructive plan, one may ask? He is said to be firing 25,000 federal employees and subjecting the rest to the will of the president. And that is completely unprecedented.
One might think that none of these horrors occurred during Trump’s four years as president — and, aside from the yelling, gnashing of teeth, impeachment and pandemic, it has been a fairly peaceful time.
But that means Trump is playing the role of a dictator’s protégé. this This time he means it, because this time he knows what he’s up to. There will be no escaping his clutches. Everyone whose name ends with a vowel will be deported.
He will force elementary school kids to consume fossil fuels, and maybe cut taxes again…
The feeling that the end of the world is near goes beyond Trump’s terrible comments.
The “far right” is on the rise in Europe, populism is on the rise. The old parties we know and love – the Tories, the de Gaulles, the Social Democrats – have collapsed. How can democracy survive?
Apparently, that’s not possible: we’re told Hitler and Mussolini have risen from the grave, but their names and faces have changed in the most bizarre ways, and the old totalitarians have been reincarnated as rather docile and uncharismatic bunches, such as Nigel Farage in the UK, Giorgia Meloni in Italy and Marine Le Pen in France.
Still, they far Yes, the media has said it many times. Extreme Just like the people who built the concentration camps, this works too. Do you know how it works?
Of course, there are the usual doubts: Could a Brit named “Nigel Farage” give a proper Hitler salute? Would Meloni really invade Ethiopia and Greece to honour the memory of Mussolini? And isn’t Le Pen honestly a bit too prim and bourgeois to stage a coup?
Never mind that. These questions will reveal the Nazi in you. For all right-thinking people, the populists have become too popular, the right has become too extreme, and the end of European civilization must be too near.
In any case, it is not politics that will bring about the end of the world. Instead, it is the weather, or as we now prefer to call it, climate, that is being said about the climate. changeApparently, this has never happened before.
In the good old days, the sky was covered with frosty clouds and the daytime was always calm, but then industrial capitalism stepped in and scattered particles everywhere for no apparent reason, turning the lush, unchanging Earth into a hellish greenhouse.
Nature’s revenge will be biblical. Humanity will experience amazing events. Miami Beach condominiums will lose their coastline. Siberia will become number one in the world for resort hotels. Sunscreen companies will overtake Amazon in market capitalization.
The climate will change and nothing will be the same as before.
The science of climate change is said to be loosely and flexibly established.
For example, Greta Thunberg told us We had that’s right She said we have five years to improve the climate to survive, but she said that six years ago and here we are. Glacier National Park warned that its glaciers would disappear by 2020, then quietly took steps to do so. Sign Down Because that January, the damn thing was still there.
No doubt these delays were a great disappointment, because we, the consumers of industrial products, all deserve a holocaust. But never mind that. If we can celebrate a moveable feast, we can bear a moveable Doomsday. Given enough time, all will pass.
Other forms of extinction are less common in the literature, but still possible. Artificial intelligence may take over the machines, and we may be chopped up by a blender while they make a mango shake. We’ve seen that movie; there have been too many sequels, and they all have terrible endings.
Or maybe the youngest generation, the Zoomers, will simply stop reproducing. It wouldn’t take much of a change, and we’d fall off a demographic cliff. Imagine the devastation: waking up one morning to find that everyone but you forgot to be born.
We can die the old-fashioned way, by nuclear devastation. Russia will nuke Ukraine, China will nuke Taiwan, and we will who Because we don’t like to be left behind.
Or maybe all these catastrophes will combine into one wonderful Terminator/zero population/glow-in-the-dark apocalypse/Trump world.
Facing extinction is stressful enough that most of us are still in denial of the process. Who will save us from certain doom?
A lonely nation looks to the White House for responsibility and the leader of the free world, and, in the midst of growing panic, is reminded that we are talking about President Biden here.
Hopes fade as we watch videos of the president inexplicably headbutting the Pope, going into rigor mortis during a raucous musical celebration, and wandering off during a meeting of heads of state. White House staff say these episodes “A cheap fake”A fitting epitaph for President Biden.
The federal government, with thousands of brilliant experts and technical masters, could step in and save the day. Right? No. The federal government Assigned It committed $7.5 billion to building new charging stations for electric vehicles, building eight stations over three years. Given the We spent $42 billion to bring high-speed connectivity to rural areas, but three years later not a single farmer can access Joe Rogan online.
Conspiracy theorists believe that Biden and the federal government, for their own perverse reasons, are actually Facilitate When doomsday arrives, they don’t really care about destroying every deplorable citizen of this country, so long as men are allowed to wear sexy dresses one last time.
That is only partially true.
Given the hysteria surrounding this subject, it would be well to take a deep breath and count to ten. Is America in the midst of a psychotic episode? There’s no question about it. Our greatest brainchilds are a collection of incomprehensible nonsense. Is humanity, at this point, in multiple simultaneous messes? It certainly feels that way.
But before we escalate things to the point of a doomsday scenario, let’s ask ourselves the following questions: Whose What is this world that is about to be destroyed?
It is certainly not the world I grew up in. For the past few years, a clique of political mystics, with the nutty Joe Biden as their nominal leader, have been trying to build a New Jerusalem out of climate fundamentalism, racial stereotyping, sexual deviance, monastic poverty (“degrowth”), censorship of the truth (“misinformation”), attracting fentanyl start-ups from Honduras, feeding children to butchers, and making it the death penalty to be Trump.
To be successful, they had to try to abolish society as it actually exists, hence why ordinary people today are a recurring pain in the ass.
But lo and behold, ordinary people are causing trouble. The New Jerusalem turns out to resemble a Hollywood set: all surface, no depth. And it is being destroyed, bit by bit.
After Biden’s successive crushing defeats in the presidential debates – freezing, gargling and slipping into fluent Esperanto before a bewildered audience of 100 million – the last remaining pieces collapsed in a heap.
The debate was a Captain Kirk moment for the president. You lose of The New York TimesYou are going where no Democratic candidate has gone before.
Everyone knows the show is over. You can hear the screams of the people in costumes and greasepaint who thought the show would go on forever. And because they have big amps, it’s an apocalyptic noise.
But rather than an end, it’s more like taking down the big tent on the last day of a circus.
There’s an old joke about a scientist who, after analyzing some data, confidently predicts that the world will end on the following Wednesday. And then that very same thing happens: the scientist gets hit by a car.
A similar situation exists among those eager to change American society, who confuse the bigger picture with the fate of their pet projects.
Sometimes the end of the world is just a matter of where you stand.
