haxxiy on 30 July 2012
Of course if you want to keep predicting the future apocalyptically, feel free to do so. People have been doing it for over three thousand years now, it isn't anything new. Something bad is always about to happen, except it never does, and life goes on.
I'd honestly like to know if there is an intrinsic psychological component on this kind of stuff anyways. As deaths for crimes, diseases, starvation and extreme climate go down worldwide some 90% in the last century, it's the rotten exceptions we love to focus on, and the results of our own stupidity on planning and politics. Maybe apes simply love a crisis.
