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APOCALYPSE WEEK AT SLATE: How is America Going to End?
#140, "Rods from God"
Slate offers up their top 144 US-centric Armageddon scenarios. (I assume that’s one scenario for every thousand Jehovah’s Witnesses admitted to Heaven.) I am especially fond of #69, “Vermont Independence,” because I’ve actually read Thomas H. Naylor‘s bat-shit crazy book, Secession. I also dig #87, “Opt-in Government,” a scenario wherein “government becomes divorced from geography. People who live in the United States can choose to be governed by the laws of Sweden and vice-versa.” And honorable mention to #107, “Climate Wars,” wherein certain countries conduct experiments to try and stop global warming, some of which trigger (or we suspect they trigger) bizarre and possibly disastrous weather, which causes all the nations of the earth to start attacking each other because everyone thinks everyone else made the weather. Please vote for your favorite or suggest your own in the comments section. Also, a big hat tip to my friend Alice Townes, who by the time she sees this post will have forgotten she ever sent me the link.
More Slate-pocalypse:
Josh Levin introduces Apocalypse Week at Slate
The world’s leading futurologists have four main theories about the demise of the US.
“Choose Your Own Apocalypse” interactive feature
PS- some of you might recall that I edited a little book about the apocalypse. Just throwin’ that out there.
Tags: apocalypse, Josh Levin, Thomas Naylor
I spent the morning reading this. I always wanted to be a futurist.
Number 145: The rest of the world simply ignores us out of existence.
Number 145: The rest of the world simply ignores us out of existence.
Number 145: The rest of the world simply ignores us out of existence.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200306/?read=idea_share
When does the end end? I’m tired of it. I live on a certain street in Manhattan where there is a sculpture and a church built nearby, with an abundance of eschatology references, including a live peacock. I have a copy of a sheet from a medieval book of hours mounted on my door (painted red, btw). I’ve interpreted the significance of my name, my birthday, to match an end-time “line of flight”. To say I have my fingers crossed would be an understatement. Justin’s selections I thought were terrific. I also like Adam Parfrey’s “reader”. Somehow my favorite apocalypse is Willam Gass’s short-story “The Apocalypse Museum”.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200306/?read=idea_share
When does the end end? I’m tired of it. I live on a certain street in Manhattan where there is a sculpture and a church built nearby, with an abundance of eschatology references, including a live peacock. I have a copy of a sheet from a medieval book of hours mounted on my door (painted red, btw). I’ve interpreted the significance of my name, my birthday, to match an end-time “line of flight”. To say I have my fingers crossed would be an understatement. Justin’s selections I thought were terrific. I also like Adam Parfrey’s “reader”. Somehow my favorite apocalypse is Willam Gass’s short-story “The Apocalypse Museum”.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200306/?read=idea_share
When does the end end? I’m tired of it. I live on a certain street in Manhattan where there is a sculpture and a church built nearby, with an abundance of eschatology references, including a live peacock. I have a copy of a sheet from a medieval book of hours mounted on my door (painted red, btw). I’ve interpreted the significance of my name, my birthday, to match an end-time “line of flight”. To say I have my fingers crossed would be an understatement. Justin’s selections I thought were terrific. I also like Adam Parfrey’s “reader”. Somehow my favorite apocalypse is Willam Gass’s short-story “The Apocalypse Museum”.