Laughing On The Road To Apocalypse

Nihilism, one yr. on: Just found this monument to truth; it's celebrating its first birthday today.

Here’s the prognosis for the 21st century, in case you still haven’t gotten the memo: we’re doomed. By "we" I’m speaking of all those who depend for their physical and mental health on the fruits of technological civilization, the Petroleum Age, the “long boom”, the flat world, global capitalism, dot-communism, industrial agriculture, etc. – in other words, pretty much anyone reading these words. As for the rest, well, most of them were doomed already, so I doubt they’d find the idea particularly interesting.

Of course even the hardest-core self-descibed realists won't admit that we're equally doomed, First & Third World (Again, wha' hoppen to the Second World?) just that we reading techno-fruit enjoyers live (& therefore suffer) longer, in greater physical comfort, & w/ better toys & distractions from our mortality than the living doomed of not-industrial not-democracy. Maybe he (We assume, ha.) just thinks being deprived of his Wii is a doom worse than death. No one's getting out alive, pilgrim.