Our fantasies about the apocalypse are nothing new, Adam Kirsch writes. Why are humans so obsessed with imagining their own demise? https://theatln.tc/xkmkVnTT
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Because it’s the thing we are most afraid of … annihilation of the species … is ‘all up in our faces’ now and it’s hard to ignore … it’s getting personal …US “micros” can’t help but see the “macro” implications of our greed …
poeple should read lacan or zizek in schools at least once to understand better this fantasies- we are in the desert of real - we fantasize about apocalypse because our symbolic universe feels increasingly emptied of meaning, but unfortunatelly the apocalypse never comes
One might direct their gaze toward some of the more obvious offenders psychologically priming large swaths of humanity with narratives that continually advocate for these scenarios - like the Torha and the Bible.
Charlene Downes was 14 when she was killed, having been repeatedly raped. Iyad Albattikhi and Mohammed Reveshi stood trial in 2008, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there could be no case due to errors in evidence gathering by police.
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One primary reason is ... "religion."
Don't know if you've noticed, but death has been an important theme in literature since the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Are you reading the room?
She has never been found. They walked free.