Over the years, I have spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about the coming Apocalypse - what form it would take, what my response would be, what my odds would be. I blame Christianity - during those long slow hours in church as a youth, I found Revelations, and read them over and over again. I also blame school - during those long slow hours, I'd muse on how I'd react if gravity suddenly flipped, and assuming I survived the fall, what my long-term plan would be, how long I could last. "Mad Max", and Stephen King's "The Stand" really opened up the realm of apocalypse fantasy for me, and as futile as I consider the topic to be (since the main characteristic is that most people die), I continue to indulge the topic as a daydream, in myriad increasingly elaborate ways. As blighted as the post-apocalyptic landscape may be, it's going to be a lot less crowded. And social interactions will be a lot more interesting. And we get to loot! Like pirates!
Based on popular culture, I'm not exactly alone - zombies, killer robots, mutant supervillains, myriad species suddenly evolving superstrength, supersize, and/or superintelligence, alien invasions, communist invasions, demonic invasions, vampire invasions, and so on. To say nothing of "reality" - drought, famine, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear brinksmanship, Reagan-era AIDS, drug epidemics, terrorism, tornados, supervolcanos, financial collapse, Republicans, the Tea Party, death cults, China, Mexican drug lords, invasive species, hackers, asteroids, CFC's, global warming, climate change, trash gyres, poverty, and so on.
WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT THE APOCALYPSE ALL THE TIME!
