Apocalypse wonderland!

What is it about the end of the world that intrigues us?  Is it the empty streets?  The broken ruins of what might have been?  The twisted metal of reality?  There’s a whole genre of film, games and books devoted to the blackened and broken remains of a post  civilization earth.  There has been for a long time.  Great novels like a CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ and EARTH ABIDES discuss the ashy ruins of an earth that must somehow find a way to go on.  Gritty gunfire tales abound on Amazon and in the computer game series FALLOUT.

So what is it it that draws us to the destruction?  Gone in those moments of the AFTER, be  it Zombie or Robot Apcoalypse, Nuclear or viral Pandemic Collapse will be the things we considered important.  Jobs and even family.  We must struggle for water, food, shelter.  Then come the threats.  There are always threats.  Wild animals, raiders, bandits, sickness, a new world order.  Is that what intrigues us.  The moment of now becoming real as we cobble together meals and shelter.  The ulitmate episode of SURVIVOR as it were. Read More