I know I just cant get over this brain worm that when I drive around it literally looks like a 90s rapture movie outside and the radio sounds like the radio in the car while people are driving around in them too.
The way we're scrambling to pick up the pieces after covid, is exactly the way people in the movies are after the rapture.
If you replace rapture, with covid, and consider the rapture as a artistic metaphor for a disaster, from the political sci-fi twilight zone authors of the past, then it's easy to say that the book of revelations and the end times prophecy in the bible could simply be a hyper intelligent man describing a series of natural or man made disasters that lead to collapse. Like, a
"watch out for these 7 signs, if you see 6 of them it's probably already too late"
Perhaps this is just the cyclical human behavior. If man is nature then like nature perhaps we have seasons, cycles we go through. The rise and fall of empires seems to imply this.
The only constant is the technology we leave behind. As we change, that is what keeps us locked in at some sort of "divine" position above the rest of the life on earth. Forever marching towards some singular technological goal uniting us all into one gigantic system, like the roots in a forest (more simple natural similarities and cyclical behaviors, no divinity required)
I find all this stuff very strange.
It makes me think that we're no more different than the chaotic ocean life first evolved in, that one day the robots of the future will evolve out of: the chaos that is humanity (or even just life).
And if that's the case, the ideas in revelation are inevitable. Just like judgment day.
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