I Am Waiting For The Apocalypse
I am just listening to an interview with Rebecca Solnit's "Paradise Built in Hell" her 2010 book on the topic of our fascination with disaster and apocalypse and "the purposeful joy that fills human beings in the face of disasters"
She declares that many of us "love certainty more than hope" and thereby "seize on bitter, despondent narratives that are they know exactly what’s going to happen".
She not only talks about the morbid fascination that many of us engage in but also the allure of "disaster convergence" which describes the human tendency to rise to the occasion in a disaster and show our best selves.
I'm just sayin'
She declares that many of us "love certainty more than hope" and thereby "seize on bitter, despondent narratives that are they know exactly what’s going to happen".
She not only talks about the morbid fascination that many of us engage in but also the allure of "disaster convergence" which describes the human tendency to rise to the occasion in a disaster and show our best selves.
I'm just sayin'
