The Devil's Diagnosis of Disenchanted Modernity

Dear Living Dark reader,

There was a time in my twenties and thirties when grim visions of the human prospect like those found in dystopian novels were prominent in my thinking and feeling about life. I found them kind of exhilarating, even though there were also depressing. The paradoxical pleasure of prophetic doomsaying, I suppose.

But that was in the 1990s and early 2000s. As we all know, doomerism and dystopian dreaming went mainstream beginning in the late aughts, and with that having occurr...