Status Updates From Everything Must Go: The Sto...

“The message was always the same: wake up! Or perish.”

“The imaginative power of a comet is clearly immune to statistic probability.” Fate, judgment, etc. portents of doom.

“Suffering is my Alpha and Omega” -Mary Shelley

“Revelation is in the lifeblood of American conspiracy theories, embodying a distinctly American blend of exceptionalist optimism and violent paranoia.”

Before apocalypse became a synonym of the end of the world (19th century), it was a genre rather than an event. A form of storytelling”, where secret knowledge of the end times are dispelled.

“The unrealized fears of the past can be a comfort, because the conviction that one is living in the worst of times is evergreen.”

“Apocalyptic angst has become a constant, all flow and no ebb.”

“Chronocentrism: the delusion that one’s own generation is experiencing what has never been experienced before, and will never be experienced again.” Lynskey argues this is part of all fictional end of the world media.

“The end of the world is a pervasive mood. A vibe.”

got through the parts that proved directly relevant to ai/internet doomerism 4 project and then my hold lapsed so!!! will return in approx 12 weeks when i get it again