As I was reading the first section, I thought of asking you to rewrite the part with people being relieved and happy after discovering the end of times hadn’t arrived, not depressed. You could pull it off, but where would you go with the sequence?
I like that idea. I think many would have eventually understood, and believed, that God had tested them, and saved them for some greater good. At a minimum he saved them from a truly awful existential fate: being able to predict the divine will with a pocket calculator.
“There’s a strange part of human nature that seems to crave chaos, and that part of human nature is on daily display on social media”
What is also strange is that “we” have monetized “this situation” for “bad faith actors” to “numb” their “captured audiences” into echo-chambers of bespoke paranoia and derangement.
Good one, Benjamin.
As I was reading the first section, I thought of asking you to rewrite the part with people being relieved and happy after discovering the end of times hadn’t arrived, not depressed. You could pull it off, but where would you go with the sequence?
I like that idea. I think many would have eventually understood, and believed, that God had tested them, and saved them for some greater good. At a minimum he saved them from a truly awful existential fate: being able to predict the divine will with a pocket calculator.
“There’s a strange part of human nature that seems to crave chaos, and that part of human nature is on daily display on social media”
What is also strange is that “we” have monetized “this situation” for “bad faith actors” to “numb” their “captured audiences” into echo-chambers of bespoke paranoia and derangement.
Call it the Nightmare Economy: horrors customized for you.