privilege – Another End of the World is Possible

Of Course Post-Doom Has a Privilege Problem

I think the answer has to be that the Post-Doom community (such as it is) can’t be an end point. It has to be a waystation–a pausing point on the way to a discussion with a wider community which includes peoples who have already experienced apocalypses and people who have been experiencing collapse all their lives. Rather than being the answer, Post-Doom can only ever point the way to a more-inclusive conversation about the end of the world as we know it.

No, America is not “the best country in the world”.

Videos like this are the feel-good side of an authoritarian movement which is literally trying to take over our government. Samuel Johnson said in 1774, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” It’s also the first refuge of the fascist.

Apocalypse Burnout

To a certain extent, the anxiety that we experience when contemplating the “end of the world as we know it”, is a function of privilege.