Apocalypse From Now On

At Spiked, Michael Fitzpatrick has an interesting reading of the SARs situation:

Fears about an explosive epidemic of a lethal infectious disease compound existing anxieties about bioterrorism, nuclear war, or some environmental disaster, to create a peculiarly modern kind of apocalypse. The end is believed to be nigh, but this is a protracted condition rather than a terminal event, a state which looms but never happens.

Comments

[Jesse (not Walker)]

Is it just me, or does this sound an awful, spooky lot like Art Bell's "Quickening"?

Maybe we should all move out to the NV desert? (pretty country, at least, if a little dry)

[Sir Real]

As a transhuman, I believe those are just small prices to pay to precipitate the Singularity...

(tongue firmly in cheek)

[Madog]

It's ok if the world ends, because I just read in Scientific American that there are several layers of infinite universes in which an infinite number of copies and near copies of us exist.

[Steve]

Well...if it's in Scientific American, it must be true. After all, Scientific American says global warming is fact.

[Lefty]

After all, they're only scientists.

[Anonymous]

"but this is a protracted condition rather than a terminal event, a state which looms but never happens."

Sounds like bad sex.

[Steve]

Lefty, you're so adorable when you buy into pseudioscientific bullshit.