Our Obsession with the End of the World

With the plethora of books, comics, TV shows, movies and games set in the apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic genre it is easy to believe that modern society has an obsession with the end of the world.But it isn’t just a modern invention or obsession. Take a look at the writers of early sci-fi and dystopian genres and you can see that our obsession and possibly even belief that the world will come to a (fireball/frozen/zombie-ridden/cannibalistic/chimpanzee) end is nothing new at all. With this in m...