Our Obsession with the Apocalypse

Airports and train stations resembled a modern-day movie-like dystopian apocalypse, we were all controlled without knowing whom by or why, and yet we complied without giving it a second thought.

We wash our hands obsessively, follow the rules by the book and we believe that we are saving the world because this is what we are told by MEDIA. We obey laws so readily like we have never heard of the REBELLION act, we are ready and nearly happy to be taken anywhere, locked up anywhere.

Did we ever stop driving to work before because of road accidents, did we ever stop going on flights, we even went skydiving. Why are we scared NOW?

Finally we are living in a movie and we are obsessed with it. Some of the most popular films in the recent years included the dystopianThe Hunger Games: Catching Fie, while most watched show in cable history is another post-apocalyptic favorite,The Walking Dead. It seems that we love to see our world destroyed. However, in most movies the end never actually comes. Millions (billions, even) die, as is required in any apocalyptic tale, but some live. The difficulty of life after catastrophe is portrayed in all its trials and horrors, but humanity goes on. The virus spreads, but the immune person is found and the anti-virus is developed in time (World War Z, Contagion). A new planet is found (Battlestar Galactica)…