Susan Sontag was someone who had astonishing insights into our collective situations. Here is one that I read recently.
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Excellent point. I could not agree more.
In functional terms the idea of an apocalpyse is 1) a wall of perceptual fog behind which certain elements may act unobserved, and 2) an excuse to escape from reality and not dream a future.