The Poverty Jet Set

I feel like I’m surrounded by people (including myself, if it be possible for one to somehow surround oneself) who have been talking about the apocalypse lately. I don’t mean the fire & brimstone kind, either. It’s more of a general feeling I’ve had since say, 5 years ago, after that one particular event we all seem to want to dwell upon as a society. Do we all see this glimmer of the collapse? What is it about life in the 21st Century that seems so… doomed?

Everywhere I go it’s on the tips of people’s tongues. Maybe it’s my relative view of things. I have, after all, been hanging out on the fringes of society. Is everyone in America afraid? I just read this article by Kurt Andersen in the New York Magazine discussing how people are indeed fearing the end of the world. Hey, if it’s in national magazines, it must be true.

Not sure why we’re so focused on it these days. As Mr. Andersen points out, perhaps we’re just at a peak of the natural ebb and flow of the doom and gloom clouds that tends to hang over our collective subconscious.

But seriously, it sorta does feel like the world’s ending, doesn’t it? Sometimes I feel like dropping out and building an off-the-grid little adobe hut with a garden and solar paneled roof is the only way to save myself from participation in the total annihilation machine.

[Image credit: Laurence Acland, via calimdoudouu]

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