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Why Our Culture Seems So Drawn To Apocalypses And Dystopias

IDEAS Posted: February 2, 2017 8:02 am

Jessa Crispin: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Certainly it’s more fun. Our imaginations are so overpowered and outmaneuvered by the toxic gravity of the global economy that we are happy to amuse ourselves watching the whole world burn instead of doing anything to keep that from happening.”

IDEAS Published: 01.30.17

Read the story in The Baffler Published: 01.30.17

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