The World Is Not Going To End This Year
Doom and gloom? No, grope for hope
Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
It’s not the end until you admit it
Every year for about five, now, I’ve begun the year with what may be misinterpreted as a negative: It’s the end of the world!
Never mind that for just as many years, I have been proven right. The world continues to decline in myriad ways. It’s burning more, drowning more, sickening more, polarizing more, and most of all, losing all life support.
Never mind that for a moment.
Over the holidays we watched Don’t Look Up.
Mixed reviews, but overall, people who see the denial of all our fellow human beings found it spot on, hilarious, and terrifying.
This is why so many move reviewers did not know how to peg it.
When something is both funny and spectacularly disturbing, it’s hard to give a simple thumb’s up. Spoiler. Except for a few (unlikely to survive) baddi-mad-zillionaires, Earth is destroyed.
The Unraveling, albeit similar, which we are currently in, is different. Many people, including I, have repeatedly written that a doomsday that looks too much like a Tuesday is just hard to…