Didn’t the World Already End? (It Happened Before Our Time)

We’re several apocalypses in by this point, right?

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Warning: This post is… one of my weird ones.

Expect apocalypses, disasters, war, suffering, general doom, and a whole lot of random existential questions.

‘You say the ocean’s rising-like I give a sh**
You say the whole world’s ending-honey, it already did
You’re not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried
Got it? Good, now get inside’

- Bo Burnham, All Eyes On Me

Didn’t the world already end?

Over and over and over again?

Didn’t it end in 1914? In 1939? In 1945? In 1986? In 1793? In 476?

In so many other years that I don’t know about because they haven’t permeated the collective consciousness of the West?

(Props to anyone who got every one of those references, btw.)

Hasn’t the world been ending — over and over again — since it began?