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People really want the world to end don't they?

Posted by Emptygoddess - January 24th, 2010


I find the world's obsession with the downfall of civilization to be fairly morbid and creepy.

I understand that as technology advances our ability to destroy this planet also increases. That doesn't seem to lesson or increase our desire for the world to end. People have been claiming the world was going to end for a very long time. Crazies like Nostradamus, that guy on the corner with the sign and the beard, your friend obsessed with the year 2012.

People are like 'oh I really want the world to end! YAY! Post apocalyptic future! ZOMBIE DOOM! Ooo blood gore. Really awesome biker gangs! YEAH! Bitchen! I'm gunna have a bat with nails in it. I'll call it the brain buster and I'll kill people on the road for their stuff! I'm gunna wear a gas mask! AND I'LL BE HUMANITIES LAST HOPE! And like totally have to find dry land and save us all!'

You are disturbing! That was a good movie though, so points for the refrence.

Even if it does happen and leave a 'cool post apocalyptic wasteland', I think people highly over estimate the dynamic and cool nature of this world.

Spiky armor with rusty bits. Cool. Weird makeshift vehicles are pretty cool. Return to a barter system and murderous gangs and rape at every corner... uh... cool ish... as long as I don't have to live there.

It's also unlikely that you'll be on an epic quest to save the last of human kind. It's more likely you'll be traveling across the wilderness looking for water, and you'll collapse and die because you can't find any, or the water you do find is tainted and deadly, then the bugs will eat you, and they will say a small prayer of thanks for your inefficient body that can't live without contaminated water for more than a few days. The bugs will craft a new and greater civilization from the food you provide them. A thriving metropolis of utopian proportions. Only to squander their seemingly infinite resources, and before they know it, be left with a hellish collapse into nothing, war and famine sending their culture into despair as they're left to wander the horrible wasteland.

What I want to know is where do all the people living in these nuclear wastelands, traveling from one paintbrush town to another, barely scrapping a living and having to fight to survive, find time to put on makeup and do their hair and clean their nails.

Most amazing is 'that girl' who manages this. She also has perfect skin, eyeliner, and nicer clothes then everyone else. At worst she gets a small dirt smudge on her cheek where a beauty mark traditionally is. She gets this after being thrown about by explosions and nearly raped and what not. (rape can also be eaten by some weird monster... or even just being lost in the waste for days.)

So yes, maybe the world will end and civilization will collapse. Just remember that it's unlikely everyone's outfits are going to be made by perfesional costume designers, and the hot girl is most likely not going to spend two hours on makeup even as she travels the nuclear dessert. She's probably going to be missing a few teeth and losing her hair from malnutrition.

She'll also probably knife you with a sharpened hairbrush and then steal that tube of toothpaste you have.

Now that's hot.


Comments

Haha, thank you for this.

You're welcome?

And so life goes on.

Until it ends.

hey, i am not wanna read all, you not can make a resumen ?

I don't know how to make resumen. I assume it uses some paprika though.

Not if I drug her with ether, rape her, then eat her sexy body for sustenance first.

Glad to see you're getting in the proper mindset already.

And I'd do that with no remorse.

That is the way to do things in the wild world of lavish death.

damn, that began intrigued and ended with a horrible after-taste. if anything's going to end it's my interest in your post.

if it began with a horrible after-taste why did you keep eating it?

really you only have yourself to blame.

i like this post. i dislike the whole zombie fad. doesn't really seem too interesting to me

Zombies are alot like robots. Only not as well made.

I agree. It's like society got bored with life the way it was and thought apocalypse would be interesting.

We're always bored. That's what we do! It's who are are!

I cant wait for the world to end so I don't have to wear this damn suit and tie anymore! >:C

you can stop wearing those without the world ending. Really it's not that hard.

"The Road" seems to have already covered your vision of the subject. Very good performances, grimy, intriguing... and makes it clear that the end of the world is not really a walk in the park for anybody.
Everyone is, of course, interpreting the 2012 prophesy for the worst. The general consensus is that 2012, in one way or another, will change the course of humanity (oh yeah, like 2001 should've done, geniuses?).
However, the actual form that change will take is not necessarily positive or negative (especially as changing humanity's ways will likely eradicate this monochrome worldview and render this discussion redundant - so keep notes). After all, the materials on which these predictions are based remain unfinished.
One hopes for the mass awakening that some more positive observers are predicting - that it lifts the veil from the dispirited spirits of Earth and gifts them with a renewed perception and understanding of the world that is leagues beyond our current appreciation (plus maybe a bonus glimpse of the greater universe at large), that we leave behind our antipathy and begin to better realise our ultimate potential...

Or of course, you could wake up on Christmas 2012 and... just have Christmas.
No hovercars, sorry - but there might be some eggnog left over in the fridge.

Sorry if the length of this post made you feel like the world had already ended and someone was reading you the minutes.

the world is fine. long live world.

Fallout 3 pretty much covers this. except in fallout 3 you don't *need*, to eat or drink, which really throws one off

Also you're on an epic quest to save humanity.

People always assume that in this zombie invasion that they will be alive, when in fact I will be making sure they don't eat my brains.

Brains taste pretty good.

Maybe that's why people commite suicide !

No, they mostly do that becuase they're sad.

Kevin Costner FTW!

Also, I love the cyclical nature of your imagine.

If anyone would be for the win, it would be Mr Costner.

you, my good sir (or madam), have a morbid imagination.

You my good geldling should eat more bread.