It’s Always the End of the World

 

Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse by IrenHorrors

Is anyone else here tired of the constant millennialism of everything? I’m supposed to be dead from GMOs and global warming and Trump’s tweets or this or this or that problem.

There is a delightfully witty and elegantly short piece in City Journal mocking how human beings always think that they live in the worst of all possible times. It starts with mentioning how a writer in, The New York Review of Books described 2019 as ‘dystopian.’ That’s about the best set-up for an enjoyable polemic that you could hope for and David Crane doesn’t disappoint.

If you can only read one article because of Thanksgiving. Read this one.

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  1. Cato Rand Inactive
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    Henry Castaigne:

    Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse by IrenHorrors

    Is anyone else here tired of the constant millennialism of everything?

    Yes

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  2. Henry Castaigne Member
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    James Lileks (View Comment):
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    More than “dystopian,” I hear “hellscape.” As in “this capitalist hellscape.” It’s usually found in a long, bleating plaint on some long-form website or a site specializing in short hot takes; it’s intended seriously and not seriously but also seriously, because Capitalism, amirite?

    People have been using hellscape alot recently. The below link is from the Washington Post. 

    “This Peloton ad is a dystopian fitness inspo hellscape”

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    Henry Castaigne (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):
    James Lileks

    More than “dystopian,” I hear “hellscape.” As in “this capitalist hellscape.” It’s usually found in a long, bleating plaint on some long-form website or a site specializing in short hot takes; it’s intended seriously and not seriously but also seriously, because Capitalism, amirite?

    People have been using hellscape alot recently. The below link is from the Washington Post.

    “This Peloton ad is a dystopian fitness inspo hellscape”

    “Inspo?”

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